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Speak Your Piece
Grant Barrett
San Diego, California
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2013/02/20 - 9:06am

What's the difference between speak your piece and speak now or forever hold your peace? While speaking your piece refers to a piece of information you want to share. Holding your peace relates to keeping the peace. This is a simple case of a collision of idioms. This is part of a complete episode.

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