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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a pet rock" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a novelty item that became popular in the 1970s, often as a humorous gift or a symbol of simplicity.
Example: "For my birthday, I received a pet rock, which made everyone laugh at its absurdity."
Alternatives: "a stone companion" or "a rock pet".
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People have fun with a pet rock".
"He was like a pet rock," my mother said.
He had a pet rock, which ran away from home because it was starved of affection.
When we first encounter Grover, he is hard at work in a morgue, having just extracted a pet rock from a dead body.
And Shepheard, assuming the mantle of the justice in Jaques's speech, adjudicates the inputs of the others (his own machine, we eventually learn, is almost a pet rock).
When he got drunk and said something cruel about Mr. McGuane in public at a party, the author writes, Mr. McGuane spat back, "You're nothing but a pet rock".
There was a brief Ping-Pong fad when Parker Brothers introduced the game in the United States in 1904, but then it seemed to drop off the charts as fast as a Hula Hoop or a Pet Rock.
I was briefly furious at her — that she was so wrapped up in telling me whatever shit, none of which I could translate into meaningful ideation, anyway, that she had failed to notice that I was demonstrating the vital signs of a Pet Rock.
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