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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Well, I wanted to get through, but I soon got done.  In between I got mad.
JL
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > got _through_
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> Jon, did you mean to write "got _done_"? ;-)
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