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   Hi Anton -- on Jul 03 2019 at 14:33, you wrote:   
      
   AS> I should have quoted Dallas:   
      
    DH>> In  other  words, "horse" is equivalent to "perfume". We   
    DH>> could say "smelled like skunk", "smelled  like  manure",   
    DH>> "smelled like perfume", and so on.   
      
   Ahh   
      
   AS> By  the  way, I have no objections to "smelled of horse" but AS> am not   
   happy with "smelled like horse" and  can't  help  but AS> want to insert an   
   article after `like'.   
      
   Understandable, but "like horse" is quite permissible. I think you may be   
   analyzing too deeply -- English is marked more by it's exceptions than it's   
   rules!   
      
      
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
   --- timEd/NT 1.30+   
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