XPost: rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english   
   From: user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Richard Heathfield  posted:   
      
   > On 05/08/2025 13:10, James Dow Allen wrote:   
   > >   
   > > Here's a similar puzzle.   
   > > To make it difficult, I don't show word lengths   
   > >   
   > > 123456789ABCD - famous claim from philosophy   
   >   
   > Stop right there! I gotta know right now!   
   >   
   > Before you go any further...   
   >   
   > Well, Meat Loaf aside, I've seen enough.   
   >   
   > > This phrase is obtained by concatenating five English words in this order:   
   > > * a small part (3)   
   > > * a pronoun (1)   
   > > * a word that occurs twice in a famous 1st stanza (2)   
   > > * a verb with dozens of dictionary entries (2)   
   > > * often appears at the end of a restaurant meal (3)   
   >   
   > I think you hesitantly missed out two letters.   
      
   "Hesitantly" -- :-)   
      
   But I think you misguessed two of my intended words.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)