[Ads-l] to bomb-drop

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jan 5 13:19:21 UTC 2021


Quora.com:

"Aircraft approached from different angles and differing times to bomb
drop."

As I've said before, this kind of ad hoc "verbalization" of V+ OBJ is as
much a syntactical as a lexical development.

JL

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