It is a classic playground scarestory - if you swallow chewing gum it will stay in your digestive system for seven years.
有个经典的大人拿来吓唬小孩的谎言——如果你吞下了口香糖，它将在你的消化系统里停留七年。
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Within an hour an unidentified person had leaked the story to the newspapers and started a scare-hunt .
在一个小时内，就有一个来历不明的人将这件事透露给了报社，并引起了恐慌。
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In other words, they are the ideal "chickens" to be killed in order to scare the "monkeys". As a matter of fact, one economist used the same proverb to describe the nature of this story.