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Have you ever heard anyone use the phrase to "dog-ear a Thesaurus?" In the sports page today it said, "Indeed, the Bulls could have made fans dog-ear a Thesaurus with how poorly they played in the first half." I don't even know what they mean. Would it mean the fans were bored? But why a Thesaurus? I am capitalizing the word because they did, but I also don't think it should be capitalized.
 
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I've never come across the expression, but surely it means that the fans ran out of ways to describe how bad they were, so ransacked a thesaurus to find more?


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What Arnie wrote.


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Makes sense.
 
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