"a hard puppy to fill"

[Mark Mandel]

Naah, just "puppy" as generic noun, referring to the space she'll leave in
the assignment roster.

m a m

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Paul <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com> wrote:

> 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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