in the water = 'exerting a significant but mysterious influence'

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> got _through_

Jon, did you mean to write "got _done_"? ;-)

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-Wilson
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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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