Day 1,302: snapping up

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Artwork of the day 
Lion Snapping at a Butterfly
Jean-Leon Gerome
Date: 1889
Style: Romanticism
Genre: animal painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, US

Word of the day 
snapping up: to buy or get something quickly and enthusiastically because it is cheap or exactly what you want

Quote of the day
“Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent