The irony of consistency is that the closer you come to being consistent before you fail, the worse off you are. If the parent cracks easily, the child does not need to be a world-class yammerer in order to succeed. But if the parent does not crack easily, the child must learn to play hardball.
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With payment to be made by the receiver: called collect; a collect phone call. [ 1 Middle English collecten, from Latin colligere, collÄct- : com-, com- + legere, to gather; see leg- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]