Vals Kilmer (like "attorneys general"?)

[Mark A. Mandel]

Dennis R. Preston wrote

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Of course it is cock-eyed, although French-eyed would be a better
label. The French term (hence the possibility of modifiers to the
eight) indicates the "general" scope of the office-holder's interest,
not a military-like rank at all.

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Of course, dInIs meant to type "to the right". ... Or is "modifiers to the
eight" something new to me, akin to "dressed to the nines"?

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And Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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  The subtitle of the 1978 miniseries _Holocaust_ was  "The Story of the
Family Weiss"
[http://library.maricopa.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=cgc2&index=BIB&term=1
94741#focus].  I don't know whether this construction was simply an
imitation of Yiddish and German syntax, or whether it was once also common
in English.

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"The Swiss Family Robinson"
"The Brothers Karamazov"


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