"tantamount" = paramount; extremely important

[Mark Mandel]

Ohhh.... pain.

m a m

(Ah, batch job is done. Back to work.)

On Feb 19, 2008 7:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A _Fox & Friends_ anchor (whom I've had occasion to quote several times in
> the past) asked this a.m., about Princess Di's butler, "What could he have
> lied about that was so tantamount?"
>
>  126 RG's for phrase "is so tantamount," including 2003 (Usenet:
> alt.fan.landmark):
>
>  "Since religion is so tantamount in people's lives, there is no way to
> outlaw it."
>
>  JL
>

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