Subject: Some of those are colloquialisms.
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Posted on: 2019-07-04 18:30:00 UTC

  • "I'd [verb] [subject] as soon as look at [subject]" is a moderately common expression in English. There are some words dropped for pithiness; the full phrase here would probably be "I would smite you as soon [read: as quickly, as easily] as I would look at you."

    - "Scarcely" would be technically correct here, but "scarce" used in this way is an accepted informal use. It's more common in British English than American English, I think.

    - "stop" in this way is also an accepted informal use. Again, a word has been dropped: "demanding [that] he stop his drinking." (Isn't colloquial English fun?)

    - For the last one, I don't think there's a word missing, but I would replace "that" with "it."

    ~Neshomeh's two cents.

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