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America's Rake is in the White House nt (Original Post)
Xipe Totec
Nov 2018
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fierywoman
(7,641 posts)1. Good one!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2. Not rakish, though he thinks himself to be.
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)3. No, just plain rake, as in dissolute. nt
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)4. I got it. I was trying to think of other ways to use "rake"
Strangely, the word "rakish" can be a synonym for "dissolute", although I've never heard it used that way. Go figure.
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)5. I got it and agreed. He thinks he's rakish, but he's not even a rake; Just a short stick in deep mud