lipstick on a pig

[Joel S. Berson]

If one wants to add politics to the lexicography, on NPR some time
around 5:30 today (Boston DST) I heard a commentator point out that
McCain and Cheney had used the same expression recently (as had
Charles Rangel).

Joel

At 9/10/2008 05:53 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>I just wrote this up as a Slate "Explainer":
>
>http://www.slate.com/id/2199805/
>
>Space didn't allow for acknowledgments of ADS-L assistance, so thanks
>to those who helped out.
>
>
>--Ben Zimmer
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