Heard on Springer

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Aug 2 17:48:36 UTC 2012


On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> "She was _door-going_, selling vacuum cleaners."
>
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> -Wilson

Short for "door-to-door-going"

LH

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> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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