"come-to-Jesus meeting"

[Mullins, Bill]

But you're ahead in so many other ways . . .

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> Thanks, Bill.  Good to know I'm only sixteen years behind the times.
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> JL
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> "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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> ProQuest Hist Newspapers has a 12/2000 NYT example.
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> Factiva has numerous examples, the earliest being:
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> FATAL NEGLECT Terri Rahn / To keep her kids, she tries to end
> patterns of past Paul McEnroe;
> 23 July 1989 p. 01A
> "Crossing her means facing her wrath in what she calls a
> "Come to Jesus"
> meeting. "
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> > "Fox News Live" about 90 minutes ago:
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> > "Basically it is a come-to-Jesus meeting between John Evander Couey
> > and authorities to see whether he knows anything about the
> > disappearance of Jessica Lee Lunsford."
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> > New to me, but many earlier exx. on the Net.
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> > JL
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