Theme:  Idioms, idiomatic expressions and figures of speech
Break a leg fellow toastmasters !
in attendance: Steve K., Yamming, Kamal, Stephanie, Eileen, Dalia, Phillip, Jane W., Malcolm, Steve E., Frank, and 3 guests
Toastmaster:  Connie
Three great speeches; difficult to pick a winner!
Stephanie:  "Tying the Knot", Entertaining Manual speech #3, Make them laugh
Humorous series of short vignettes of Stephanie’s life with Norm:  “I knew exactly what he was like when I first met him”
Evaluator:  Malcolm 
Eileen:  "Reducing Rationalizations”, Entertaining Manual speech #1, Entertaining speech
What I want to do is lose weight; what I don’t want to do is diet…
Evaluator:  Steve E
Dalia:  Verbal Variety, CC Speech #7
How to give a speech with ”feeling?”  Anchor yourself to your emotional state.
Evaluator:  Frank
Table Topics:  Phillip
Some great questions about idioms, and many idioms and figures of speech were used.  A subset:  raining cats and dogs; heads over heels; fall through the cracks; go back to the drawing board or back to square one (why square one?), no guts, no glory; bitr the bullet, shoulder you way in; push the envelope; send chills down the back of your spine
Ah Counter/Grammarian:  Steve K 
WordMaster:  Yamming 
Timer:  Kamal
Inspiration:  Eileen
Jokemaster:  Steve K
Word of the day:  salient (adj) prominent or conspicuous, relating to standing out: salient traits.
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