Goats go out on a limb.
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Caption: Goats go out on a limb to snack on the leaves and olive-like fruit of an argan Argan
character who suffers imaginary ills; determined to be an invalid. [Fr. Lit.: Le Malade Imaginaire]
See : Hypochondria tree. The trees, which grow only in Morocco, provide the main ingredient for a fragrant fra·grant
adj.
Having a pleasant odor.
[Middle English, from Latin fr gr oil used in cooking and cosmetics. For centuries, Moroccan Berber women have collected the undigested argan pits that the goats spit up or excrete excrete /ex·crete/ (eks-kret´) to throw off or eliminate by a normal discharge, such as waste matter.
ex·crete
v.
To eliminate waste material from the body. . The pits are split open, and the kernels are ground and pressed to extract the nutty-flavored oil.
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