"Getting Everleighed"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jul 14 21:27:36 UTC 2007


In her book, _Sin in the Second City_, Keren Abbott, as noted in an
NYT book review by Janet  Maslin, makes the claim that " ... the
phrase, 'getting Everleighed' was abbreviated into 'one of America's
bawdiest idioms' ..."

Really?! I did not know that.

-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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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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