tick-tock again

[Victor Steinbok]

At least in the TPM version, when implying "timeline" hyphens are not
used. I suspect the same is true of at least some other uses of the
/noun/ tick tock.

     VS-)

On 12/27/2011 1:19 PM, Brian Hitchcock wrote:
>
>     http://goo.gl/zLm0j Dems Serve Up Ironic Tick Tock Of Events
>     Leading To Payroll Tax Victory A senior Democratic aide offers
>     this tongue in cheek tick tock on the House GOP's payroll tax cut
>     surrender.
>
>
> .....  The above seems sorely bereft of hyphens.  I could easily imagine
> three in that sentence, assuming that  ~tick-tock~ needs one.
>
>                               (tongue-in-cheek tick-tock)
> BWH

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