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We sneak in and here's your shmoop du jour brought

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to you by reese is pieces they were originally going

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to be called reese is bits of stuff but only

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worried that might be too big All right look at

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the sentence I love him to pieces The sentence is

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probably what i've even something your grandma said All right

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And here potential answers Yeah it's Not like that Okay

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well so somebody loves somebody else to pieces Maybe because

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they bought them candy at the movie theater Yeah we

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know that's enough to change our opinion on just about

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anyone Yeah it doesn't take much So what is this

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sentence anyway Is it be a definition A definition of

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what the word love isn't being defined nor is the

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word teases There are no parts of speech or pronunciation

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keys inside either So pretty safe to rule this one

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out is it D a phrase that changes awards meaning

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well know the feeling of love we're talking about sounds

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like you know regular old vanilla love it's the same

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emotion we've used to describe our feelings about junior mints

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It was good The word pieces is a little trickier

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But it's Not that the meaning of the word changes

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instead it's the idea that the word has two meanings

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both a literal and figurative one The literal meaning of

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pieces refers to actual physical bits or chunks of something

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like pieces of glass or pieces of pie The figurative

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or not literal meaning refers to someone feeling so many

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emotions that they almost stopped working So if you go

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to pieces you're probably having a hard time emotionally it's

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Not that you're actually literally breaking into tiny fragments though

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so yeah a is our answer here If someone is

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being loved to pieces it just means that someone loves

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them so much They're liable to hug them until they

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break figuratively which will totally happen If you buy us

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a bucket of dibs Don't say we didn't warn you

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