[Ads-l] stumbling stone

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Looks like possible influence from German, where the word for "stumbling block" is "Stolperstein" (literally "stumble stone")


Gerald Cohen

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Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote
(Friday, December 15, 2017 7:06 AM):

A farmer in Kentucky tells CNN's Poppy Harlow that too many people are
putting "stumbling stones" in the path of the president.

JL





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