Freeman's antedate of "turn a blind eye"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/11/2007 10:53 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Very nice.  I think we should compromise on a euphemistic replacement:
>"the military is turning a visually impaired eye because..."

Or should one call this a PC replacement?


>As the saying goes, "In the land of the doubly visually-impaired, the
>singly visually-impaired person is monarch".

Are you about to redact H.G. Wells' title and story?

Joel

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