Etymology at the Volokh Conspiracy

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

See:
http://volokh.com/posts/1226638091.shtml

for discussions of "romanette," "opening the kimono", "getting to the short strokes" (is it from golf, painting, or doing the dance with no steps?), "money shot" (when Katie Couric used the phrase on the Today Show, was she alluding to a porn movie?)

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