"Grow a sac(k)!" = "Man up!"

[Rowan McMullin]

Similar among college students (at least in Wisconsin) these days:
"grow/sprout a pair."

-Rowan

On 1/9/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Heard on a TV sitcom.
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