mole; dressage

[Victor Steinbok]

Some of this can combine--"rat fink". Others, not so much--"mole rat" is
something entirely different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Naked_Mole_Rat_Eating.jpg

     VS-)

On 4/15/2012 12:13 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> A disgruntled former Fox News employee has been revealing hideous network
> secrets on the Net. The media call him a "mole":
>
>    http://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-digs-mole-suspends-him-022042144.html
>
> A "mole," however, is a spy planted by the enemy.  In this case, there is
> no enemy. The word they want is "turncoat" or "rat" or, for those of a
> certain age, "fink."
>
> The same article tells how Gov. Romney inadvertently broke a verbal taboo
> opening him to further ridicule.  The "mole" exposed him.
>
> JL

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