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The refusal to read between lines, even when the lines are begging.
means The quality of taking words in their exact, plain sense, without metaphor, exaggeration, or implied meaning.
from From Latin littera, meaning letter — as in the letters on a page, the smallest unit of taking things at face value.
Legal homeCourts prize it; contracts live and die by it.
Comedy fuelMost jokes break the moment someone insists on it.
Translation foeWord-for-word renders meaning unrecognizable across languages.