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Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 9 21:25:17 UTC 2018


How do you know he said "to the nail" and not "tooth 'n' nail"??

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 4:50 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A.B. Stoddard, MSNBC commentator:
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> "Republicans will fight you to the nail on that."
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> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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