Heard: "I have _ramped_ and raved!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Dec 23 22:29:50 UTC 2012
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
> MW3 shows "ramp and rage" in a citation exemplifying the verb "ramp".
What is it that "_ramp_ and rage" means, according to MW3since it's
apparently "not* merely a tip of the slung?
Youneverknow. <sigh!>:-(
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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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