"Above approach"

[Joel S. Berson]

Why the half-way appreciation?  I would be pleased to have invented this.

Joel

At 5/30/2006 08:16 AM, you wrote:
>In this morning's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, there's an AP story on Sen.
>Harry Reid, who accepted a questionable gift from the Nevada Athletic
>Commission. Kathleen Clark, an expert on congressional ethics at
>Washington University in St. Louis, is quoted as saying, "I think he
>would want to be above approach even when it's from a state
>commission and not a private lobbyist."
>
>If it's a deliberate coinage - above being approached? - it strikes me as
>halfway clever, but there's a definite eggcornish flavor to it.
>
>Jim Parish
>
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