"like" and "as if"

[Wilson Gray]

On Jun 24, 2005, at 6:28 PM, sagehen wrote:

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>> Don't know when she picked it up, but my grandmother used to say "A
>> fat
>> lot of >good that'll do you !"  She said it often.
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>> JL
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> This was (and still is) a *very* common expression among people of my
> generation.

Fuckin' A right, A!

-Wilson

>  I don't know what its source may have been.
> A. Murie
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