fly in the ointment (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

An odd variant:

Middletown NY Times Herald, 8/5/1933 p 9 col 4

"Booking difficulties with the Pennsylvania outfit was the katydid in
the Vaseline."



Didn't Bruce Willis give a list of similar phrases in the first Die Hard
movie?
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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