A plain brass clock with an unmarked face rests beside a small evergreen sprig on cream stone.

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Phoenix Wright

'Almost Christmas' means it wasn't Christmas!

— Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney ‧ 2001

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Phoenix notices that an apparently ordinary expression fixes a crucial boundary in time. The emphatic deduction makes a small linguistic detail matter to an investigation. This is English dialogue from the title originally released in Japan in 2001; its English release followed in 2005.

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  • PolygonPhoenix notices that an apparently ordinary expression fixes a crucial boundary in time. The emphatic deduction makes a small linguistic detail matter to an investigation. This is English dialogue from the title originally released in Japan in 2001; its English release followed in 2005.Reference checked

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