[Ads-l] a stiff upper chin

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/16/2015 09:44 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>CNN:
>
>"But folks here in Boston are dealing with it with a stiff upper chin."

As Katharine Hepburn would have.

Joel


>Most of the 63,000 raw Googlits seem to refer to Samuel Goldwyn's
>malapropism.
>
>But only most.  The guy on CNN seemed fairly serious.

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