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Pick up and drag the words to rearrange them into a chain in which every adjacent pair of words is a familiar two-word phrase like "hot dog". The pink words are the start and end of the chain and cannot be moved. When you have finished linking the words we'll show you the definitions of the phrases. If you want an extra challenge, try to make the chain in no more than 3 moves.

Definitions
  • Excellent Women: a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1952, her second published novelAlexander McCall Smith, The Guardian, 5 April 2008 and generally acclaimed as the funniest and most successful of her comedies of manners.
  • Women Talking: an upcoming American drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley, based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews.
  • talking head: (idiomatic, also attributive) A journalist or pundit, especially one on television, who presents or discusses issues of the day.
  • head tax: A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual; a poll tax.
  • tax break: A deduction in tax that is given in order to encourage a certain economic activity or a social objective
  • break even: (idiomatic) To neither gain nor lose money.
  • even working: (publishing) An arrangement where the number of pages in a book is divisible by 16 or 32, to make efficient use of paper.
  • working poor: (economics) Working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line.

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