Christmas Tree Effect

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:50 PM -0500 2/2/01, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:28:22PM -0500, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>>     From the WALL STREET JOURNAL, 2 February 2001, pg. 1, col. 6:
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>>  The "Christmas Tree" Effect
>>  (...)  (Pg. 6, col. 4--ed.)
>>     "We have to try not to load up the bill like a Christmas tree
>>or it will collapse," he says.
>
>Unusually for me, I don't have a copy of HDAS handy (must be that
>baby balanced on my shoulder), but I'm pretty sure there's an
>entry for "Christmas tree" in this sense.
>
Yes, the loaded-up legislative bill is the sixth sense provided for
"Christmas tree", with the first cite from a 1968 lexicon compiled by
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William Safire.

larry