"sleep tight"

[Dan Goncharoff]

There is a snippet from Little Men in GB that reads, "Now this is the
curiousest part of it, so you listen tight, for I don't believe you know
it."

DanG


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> James Edward Grant (via John Wayne) _The Alamo_ (1960): "I'm gonna tell you
> something, Flaca, and I want you to listen tight."
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> Here it = 'real, real closely'
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> I don't believe I've ever encountered "listen tight" elsewhere.
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> JL
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Fast  "asleep."
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> > Precisely my point! Joh, you understand! :-)
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> > Just heard Colbert say,
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> > "The name of this movie is _called_ ['Whatever']."
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> > So, he really *is* a son of the South!:-)
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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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