[Ads-l] to blow and go

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jun 1 15:46:34 UTC 2016


That's "complementary."

JL

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The phrases may be regarded as complementaryl.
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>> On Jun 1, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>> Cf. "come and go."
>>>
>>> JL
>>
>> Now now, that gets a 12 thumbs up and 20 thumbs down, so it doesn't count as a bona fide (or should that be bonified?) lemma.  Democracy rules!
>>
>> --LH, assuming that was *not* what the ladies in the room were doing while talking of Michelangelo
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>>>> On Jun 1, 2016, at 8:06 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> MSNBC's Joe Scarborough says of the high turnover in D. Trump's small
>>>>> advisory staff:
>>>>>
>>>>> "They blow and go."
>>>>>
>>>>> Once again, UrbanDictionary will tell you the picture you should have
>>>>> in your head,
>>>>>
>>>> I'll assume we're talking about the entry invoking a breathalyzer workaround...
>>>>
>>>> LH
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