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[Pangolin]

27d Is parsnips correct and if so why?

Have more influence with old-fashioned method, say
? ? ? ? E ? G ?

[johnalex]

Outweigh (out 'way')

[kayakamina]

Outweigh....... Out way

Parsnips...Standard= Par
Easy = Snips

[Pangolin]

Thank you both, but I still don't see how parsnips fits in with "not enhanced by fine words", Kyakamina

[wideboy]

Thanks for the help with Parsnips - looking it up on Google points to an old proverb about butter, fine words and parsnips. Also used in Vanity Fair.

See here:-
Fine words butter no parsnips

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-but2.htm