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[Mark Mandel]

>
> ----- Forwarded message from "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at att.net> -----
> At 7/9/2009 07:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > And after several housewives ganged up on another in a strident argument,
> > she told the camera, "I was sitting there getting literally gangbanged."
>
> Now that's more literary than I would credit Real Housewives of New
> Jersey!  (Or was the speaker Japanese-American?)
>

Instead of "literally" used counter-sense for "figuratively", this could be
"gang" + ["bang" for 'hit, impact']: a more-compositional interpretation of
the word.

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