the "out years"

[Jonathan Lighter]

President Obama referrred this morning to "the out years" despite the fact
that OED has no idea what he's talking about.

This site seems to: http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/out-years

The President also used the popular phrase "My way or the highway,"
which seems to appear earliest in the late Gil Scott-Heron in his 1972
novel, _The Nigger Factory_.

I didn't encounter the phrase in speech till the mid '80s.

Finally, feel free to employ - as appropriate - my own offerings,  "Your way
or the doorway" and "Their way or the stairway."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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