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jjs | 12 years ago

> In a perfect world having a list where 25% of the names are potential trouble-makers [...]

... would be pointless, as a perfect world would have no concept of "trouble".

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steve19|12 years ago

"in a perfect world" is an English phrase. It means, in this context, "if this worked perfectly".

It is not a statement about the world in general.

jjs|12 years ago

You say idiom, I say chronic lack of imagination.