Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> have trouble seeing "sloughing off its skin" being a basis for something like "quit sluffing (off) and get back to work."

I do, too, now that you mention it..

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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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