working that idiom

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

Nancy Franklin, "On Television: Home and Away" (on David Mamet's "The
Unit"), The New Yorker 5/1/06, p. 91:

Irby's character tends to come in handy when the unit needs an
"ethnic" cover--he can start up a soccer game with a bunch of Latinos
near a suspicious warehouse, if need be, and need does be in one
episode.

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