"a hard puppy to fill"

[Paul]

paul johnson wrote:
Are you saying her dogs were barking?

Joel S. Berson wrote:
> At 7/26/2008 05:32 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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>> Today a visiting nurse, talking about weekend staff shortages, said of a
>> co-worker who's just left the agency:
>> "She worked 12-hour shifts. That's a hard puppy to fill. That's a
>> hard puppy
>> to fill."
>> [Yes, he repeated the sentence.]
>
> I assume the nurse was concerned about foot comfort for her colleague
> who was on her feet for most of her long shifts, and was referring to
> Hush-Puppies.
>
> Joel
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