Talk:say boo to a goose

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@-sche: Hello. Could we lemmatise this and hurt a fly (currently wouldn't hurt a fly) the same way, please? --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 15:18, 28 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Prevailing practice so far has been to lemmatize the positive form and define it accordingly, with a redirect from the negative form (if the phrase is ever attested without a negative particle), so you could move that make to the title you propose. This is probably confusing for anyone who doesn't realize they've been redirected and sees the phrase defined opposite to what it (in its usual, negative form) means, but I don't know how to solve that short of lemmatizing the negative form and having redirects (and/or distinct entries with their own definitions) at the positive form. - -sche (discuss) 22:08, 28 February 2018 (UTC)Reply