Dogs [Was: Link to NY City Council "Bitch & Ho" Resolution]

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Aug 13 13:22:33 UTC 2007


At 8/13/2007 08:48 AM, James Landaucwrote:
>and it is dangerous to
>seize him by the car in order to stop him (Prov. xxvi. 17).

No wonder he was reviled.  Even in Biblical times he chased
chariots.  Risk of overturning?  [car:  OED2 n.1 sense 1.]

Joel

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