intrusive"of" + pl.

[Jonathan Lighter]

This sounds exceptionally weird to me because I'm one of the few people
left who don't use an intrusive "of" and to whom it sounds weird and crazy
in the first place.

A CNN reporter speaking fluently: "It's lucky [the gunmen] were such
terrible of shots."

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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