Unbeatable phrasal verb

[W Brewer]

LH:  <<Z-ing away the afternoon?>>
WB:  Only thing is, gee whiz, I'm z-z-z-z-z-z-ing my li-i-fe away. Make it
last.
I used to S up mountains on a ten-speed, in my Berkeley Hills days.
Sometimes wearing a T shirt.


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> X-ing out the mistakes?  Z-ing away the afternoon?  F-ing up one's life?
> (OK, that last one's cheating.)
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> LH
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> On Mar 27, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Pablo Dominguez wrote:
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> > "His father O-ing out the smoke...", wrote A.Burgess (Enderby Outside,
> > London 1968, p.7)
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