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All right Aspiring t people alright Survival instincts on tv

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Here we go man or woman still on their feet

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How awkward is that Art were in paragraph to the

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original survival reality show probably titled survivors Actually a fierce

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competition Many rules may twist Sent to a remote location

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they must find their food water shelter and a community

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free physical challenges The challenge winners receive prices like food

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or immunity from being voted off the show The last

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man or woman still on their feet receives a one

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million dollar payout It's like a robot broke that and

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not very well Well the expression last man standing on

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gender bias aside generally first to the winner of a

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challenge who has eliminated or defeated everyone else literally the

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last dude standing like physically standing while everyone else is

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prone on the floor sitting in chairs or something Well

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in this end of the idiomatic expression perfectly describes what

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the winner of survivor receives Ah big fat paycheck Yeah

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and a side note here Last man standing also has

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a nicely victorious hunger games esque ring to it whereas

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the literal interpretation could very well mean that the last

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man standing will just lost it You know musical chairs

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alright well has its written The phrase is awkward and

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uses their to refer to man or woman when the

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correct pronoun should be his or her well run subject

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of their their spelled t h e r e is

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an incorrect pronoun as well Like indeed it's not the

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last person there wins Like the location they're wins the

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million dollar prize It's the person who remains after all

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other competitors have bean vanquished way get closer to the

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correct answer by describing the winner is someone who's still

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a participating in the game But that phrase is still

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not as precise as it should be instead of the

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last man or woman standing as in b So it

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should read The last man or woman standing received a

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million dollar payout and that's it maura she looked out

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