"nip X in the butt"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> It can nip the issue in the butt before it ever...

gets a chance to bite you in your ass. ;-)

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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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