"Above approach"

[Jim Parish]

In this morning's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, there's an AP story on Sen.
Harry Reid, who accepted a questionable gift from the Nevada Athletic
Commission. Kathleen Clark, an expert on congressional ethics at
Washington University in St. Louis, is quoted as saying, "I think he
would want to be above approach even when it's from a state
commission and not a private lobbyist."

If it's a deliberate coinage - above being approached? - it strikes me as
halfway clever, but there's a definite eggcornish flavor to it.

Jim Parish

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