Follow-up on sluff - play hooky, slack off

[Dan Goncharoff]

I see a smooth migration from sloughing off your responsibilities thru
sloughing off work and sloughing off homework to sluffing off,
especially among people who sloughed off their homework enough so they
never learned to spell "slough".

DanG



On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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."
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> I do, too, now that you mention it..
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