getting his freak

[Mark Mandel]

How about "getting her *cat*  *walk* on"? My wife and I sometimes comment
that our cat

 "Sways with a waddle, with a waddle when she walks,
 "Sways with a waddle when she walks."

In the original it's "a wiggle". "Cat walk" could easily refer to a
wiggling, um, tail.

m a m

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "... gets her *catwalk* on"?! Well, at least she's not a poseur like
> Dr. John and his ridiculous "Jump _Sturdy_."
>
> Saying "get her catwalk on" is as stupid - in the old sense - as
> saying, "get her car on" instead of "get her drive on."
>
> Unless there's a verb, "to catwalk," of which I am unaware, with the
> appropriate meaning.
>
> Youneverknow.
>
> -Wilson
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Benjamin Zimmer
> <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
> > Subject:      Re: getting his freak
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> > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Steve Kleinedler <stevekl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Several years ago I sent Jonathan Lighter a copy of an issue of The
> >> Weekly Dig, a Boston publication, which used the "get your _____ on"
> >> frame about 100 times in that issue, in a tongue-in-cheek comment on
> >> the overuse of that phrase.
> >
> > That's in the '05 discussion I linked to upthread:
> >
> > http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0508C&L=ADS-L&P=R7451
> >
> > Here's another usage from a recent episode of the Bravo reality show
> > "The Real Housewives of New Jersey":
> >
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> http://avagacser.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey-are-back/
> > Teresa’s oldest daughter, Gia, tries out as a Fashion Week model here.
> > “When Gia gets her catwalk on, she gets it on,” vows Teresa.
> > ---
> >
> > --Ben Zimmer
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