Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> And I only remember hearing it to euphemize a bathroom visit, not for
> taking one's leave to enjoy a drink or a romantic dalliance.
>

Word!

I wonder how it has come about that only we two have have both the
correct wording and the proper semantic interpretation? Great minds, I
guess.;-)

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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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