[Ads-l] Heard, spoken by John Wayne Gacy's sister

[Mark Mandel]

I don't think I know that construction at all. I guess it means something
close to "he up and said"; is that right?

Mark

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 10:29 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "I don't know what I can _take and say_." [i.e. to the relatives of John's
> victims to bring them closure.]
>
> I don't think that I've heard anything but "took and VERB-ed," before.
>
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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