Yet More Bad Girl Talk

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 19th C. _to snatch baldheaded_ 'to
> vanquish, ruin, defeat thoroughly, etc.'

Still alive in BE. Usually a woman-to-woman threat. Of course, any
resemblance of an expression to other expressions, living or dead, may
be purely coincidental.

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-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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