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Saw Logs

To snuffle, or breathe heavily while having sound sleep

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  • It is an expression associated with sound which originated in 20th century. The writer must have had sharp ears that imagined thinking someone snoring, he recalled the sound of snuffling is similar to the sound of wood that is sawed or chopped into slices. The same idea is used even today by many cartoonists in their pictures by drawing a piece of wood with a saw that lie above people’s head that snore. So the expression simply deals with people snoring when they are in sound sleep.
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Everybody is sick of the disturbance when Jim saw logs in the bedroom.

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Submitted on February 25, 2019

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