Meaning of untaken-advantage-of | Babel Free

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Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“Thus cometh it that You Charley and I are fast friends, and I am under his immediate and powerful protection. To wit, my fowls go unstoned by the Little Willies of the neighborhood (there are two or three); my deafness goeth untaken-advantage-of; and my door un-runaway-knocked at.”

““[…] That boy Sparks is always hanging about. I think he wants to marry her [Daffy] or something.” / “Probably something,” put in Venus, “if he’s like the boys I used to know.” / “You’re wrong,” declared Daffy. “I’ve already suggested something, but he insists on leaving me untaken-advantage-of.””

“Co-eds in a recently formed organization at New York University are pledged not to marry men who wish to avoid service under the draft law. All we can say is that this is a fitting climax to the most untaken-advantage-of Leap Year in our experience.”

“Thus, in comparing a four-pigment system to a three-pigment one--in a common color-area of interest, as defined by pigment-distance vectors in either system's color space--you might find the the^([sic]) four-pigment system much superior at discriminating color differences in that particular area. But if the two different systems occur in the same species, without evolution of highly different behavior patterns with respect to the given color area, you'd figure that the excess-pigment variant was merely a fluke (an untaken-advantage-of consequence of an unrelated genetic happenstance), without any neural wiring to make it useful.”

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