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Why does the expression 'eight days a week' come from and what is the meaning of it?

Question #99494. Asked by NoseTwitcher14.

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Usual tendency of languages to be emotional, to exaggerate rather than to be strictly logical. Beatle-song does same as Shakespeare when coining the phrase "for ever and a day". Logically there are only seven days in a week and for ever is for ever. But emotionally ..Emotions are a very different thing than logics.
link http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/140900.html

Sep 17 2008, 3:21 PM
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