"get-out" (noun) from Britain

[Joel S. Berson]

An English correspondent wrote:

> > > I suspect that the topic may be disparate things linked by the
> > > English language, in which case the adjective English in the heading
> > > is a get-out - "English poetry". The difficult questions are whether
> > > Emerson and Burns are English poetry or American and Scottish.

Was asked:

> >What's a get-out?

And answered:

>A get-out-of-jail-free card from Monopoly.

Joel

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