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Can I use phrase "lost for words" with "the" = "lost for the words" ?
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undefined wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2020 10:34 pm Can I use phrase "lost for words" with "the" = "lost for the words" ?
No. This fixed expression is “lost for words”. As in:

When he asked me to marry him I was lost for words.
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