DARE: "Mean enough to ...."

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 8 21:05:15 UTC 2010


I don't have a "mean enough to," but I do have a "bad enough to":

"Bad enough to handcuff lightning and put thunder in jail"

from St. Louis.

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-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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