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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
Jim Dixon	BS: Omitted noun figure of speech (68* d)	RE: BS: Omitted noun figure of speech	28 Feb 14
If this truly is a thing that needs a name, we ought to be able to think of a few more examples. "New York's finest" comes to mind. "Finest what?" I would always think, when I first heard this expression. It's something of a cliche, and it always refers to police officers. It's even used as a slogan on the official NYPD web site. I've never heard any other police department use a phrase like it. It's arguable that "finest" is a noun. Is it ever used as a noun in any other context? If "finest" is an adjective, then I don't know what the missing noun would be.

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