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Not to me. We talk about an outcropping of hair, weeds, rocks. Perhaps originally, harvested crops were gathered into bunches.
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Not to me.
We talk about an outcropping of hair, weeds, rocks.
Perhaps originally, harvested crops were gathered into bunches. You see cut cornstalks gathered into bundles.
I've always known "cropped up" to be used figuratively to describe the unexpected and unwanted "popping up" (sudden appearance) of something considered undesirable by the speaker.
Those danged nests o
We talk about an outcropping of hair, weeds, rocks.
Perhaps originally, harvested crops were gathered into bunches. You see cut cornstalks gathered into bundles.
I've always known "cropped up" to be used figuratively to describe the unexpected and unwanted "popping up" (sudden appearance) of something considered undesirable by the speaker.
Those danged nests o
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