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प्रश्न
Answer the following question.
a) "…But up-and-down brushin'
And pokin' and fussin'
Didn't seem worth the time-I could bite!"
What do these lines convey?
उत्तर
The act of brushing her teeth up and down and checking them carefully didn’t help her much. It was too little and too late. Most of the time she had been biting lollies, toffees, sweets and candies. And that had already done the damage.
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