Heard on The Judges: _the gate_ = "the start, the get-go, the B-ginning, the B-go," etc.

[Wilson Gray]

Forty-three-year-old Latin male, speaking WRT twenty-year-old
ex-girlfriend who, among other things, is complaining about having had
to deal with, during the relationship, another ex-girlfriend who is
the mother of his children, of whom he has custody:

"She knew from _the gate_, your honor, about the baby-mama drama!"

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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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