fly in the ointment (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Dan Goncharoff]

"Just the fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench, the pain
in the ass..."

DanG

On 6/23/2010 1:28 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> An odd variant:
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> Middletown NY Times Herald, 8/5/1933 p 9 col 4
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> "Booking difficulties with the Pennsylvania outfit was the katydid in
> the Vaseline."
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> Didn't Bruce Willis give a list of similar phrases in the first Die Hard
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