From an NYT Online teaser

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Mar 25 02:29:16 UTC 2012


"… _fed up over_ the frequency with which New York City police
officers are stopping and frisking minority men …"

Isn't that idiom, "fed up _with_"?

OTOH, I suppose that I should be happy that the writer didn't use

"… police officers _are stop and frisking_ minority men …"
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-Wilson
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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.
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