squeeze the eagle

Joan H. Hall jdhall at WISC.EDU
Fri Jan 26 15:45:40 UTC 2007


DARE will have various phrases at "squeeze," such as "squeeze the dollar
till the eagle screams," but at "eagle" sense 4 we have examples of
"when the eagle shits" (and variants), referring to payday.

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