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THIS WEEK
I’m going LATIN on your ass. And while my first language is English, and my second is Irish, there are plenty of Latin words and phrases often and commonly employed in everyday English speaking. I’ve chosen the four that I think are most commonly made a balls of. I have looked for the Latin equivalent of ‘to make a balls of’ – alas, nothing was forthcoming.