[Ads-l] Heard: a clumsy metaphor

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Feb 13 00:27:02 UTC 2018


> On Feb 12, 2018, at 4:55 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Narrator of Killer Couples:
> 
> "After gaining control of the family's assets, she slowly wiped her mother
> clean.”

Front to back, let’s hope.  Bad enough to have your assets plundered by your own daughter without getting a UTI on top of it.

LH

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