Skip to Content

English Club : Learn English : English Language Reference
Reference : Quotes : Age : To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

< Previous

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

Alec Douglas Home (1903-1995) British politician and sometime prime minister

Wordchecker more info deafness (noun): inability to hear
be accustomed (verb): be used to (something)
dentures (noun): false teeth
be resigned (verb): accept something that is undesirable
manage (verb): handle; live with
bifocals (noun): glasses (eyeglasses), each lens having two parts
miss (verb): feel the loss of; regret the absence of
mind (noun): your memory and faculty of thinking