hand over fist/foot

[Mark Mandel]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> For a while, I continued to use "in the War" instead of "in the Army,"
> because I had an ace, a Navy veteran, who always got the jaws behind
> hearing me say it. He felt that I was thereby claiming to have seen
> combat.
>

"got the jaws behind"? New to me. = 'got really annoyed by' ?

m a m

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