Say what?

[Bill Lemay]

This is an ultra-long shot, but in an early Star Trek episode ("Amok Time")
McCoy calls Spock "... as tight-lipped as an Aldebaran shell mouth."

Bill Le May


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> The [New England] Patriots are notorious around the NFL for being
> _shell-mouthed_ about injuries [to their players].
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> Pierce, Charles P.
> Moving The Chains.
> New York, 2006.
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> "Shell-mouthed"?
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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