"smart off" and another metaphorical "north of" on NBC news

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> make it go


Is this a common variant of "make a go of it"?


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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.
-Mark Twain

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