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audience

On-Yomi: エツ

Elements:

audience, say, words, keitai, mouth, mexican bandit, muchacho, siesta, sun, day, aroma, bound up, spoon, sitting on the ground

Heisig story:

Imagine an audience with the emperor or the pope in which all those in attendance are sitting down, leaning against the wall, sleeping like our muchacho on siesta as the honorable host delivers his speech.

Koohii stories:

1) [ruisu] 26-11-2007(231): The talk was so boring the audience took a siesta.

2) [Katsuo] 30-10-2008(59): Note: The keyword meaning is "Have an audience with . . . (Pope, King, etc)". Story: When you arrive for your audience with the Pope, he appears to be dozing. His assistant says, "Sorry about your audience, but you won't get a word out of him while he's having his siesta".

3) [GenPDP7] 20-12-2007(36): The man talking during his siesta (in his sleep) is saying strange things and drawing an audience.

4) [lasercorn] 5-6-2008(24): A good audience doesn't talk or take a siesta.

5) [FuDaWei] 30-5-2010(10): The Pope granted an AUDIENCE to the entire Mexican village, but since he didn't talk in Spanish, it quickly turned into a mass siesta.

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