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Cut the tension with a knife

Posted by ESC on March 22, 2005

In Reply to: Cut the tension with a knife posted by thank you on March 22, 2005

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The tension in the room was so thick one could almost cut it with a knife. Meaning the people in the room were so tense that the emotion almost had a physical presence.

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