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varnished tale can't be round (one has to tell the whole story without omitting any unpleasant part of it); you can't throw words out of a song; you can't knock words out of a song; a word dropped from a song makes it all wrong | |||
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⇒ из сказки слова не выкинешь (academic.ru) | |||