[Ads-l] chicken salad

[Ben Zimmer]

Possibly alluding to the expression "making chicken salad out of chicken
shit" (more fun to say than "making a silk purse out of a sow's ear").


On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> John King, CNN,  re T---p's t-x r----n:
>
> "There's that old metaphor about making chicken salad...."
>
> (General laughter.)
>
> Is there anyone who can't complete the "metaphor"?
>
> JL
>
>

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