New (to me) slang

[Jonathan Lighter]

But, then, you're not a coal-miner.

This phr. is also new to me, and sounds somewhat factitious.

JL

Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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Coal-miner's cocaine = OxyContin : p.50, Mar 28, 2005 issue of Time.
A funny thing, I've been using oxycodone for the past quarter-century
and I'm not addicted. ;-)

-Wilson Gray


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