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the elbow

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My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. Roald Dahl

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. Harper Lee

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. Christopher Hitchens

If you dip your arm into the picklepot let it be up to the elbow. Malawi Proverb

The elbow is near, but try and bite it. Russian Proverb

Never let a handshake pass the elbow. African Proverb

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