"move the needle"

[Jonathan Lighter]

To make progress. Not in OED.

A Romney spokesman says in CNN that in three-and-a half years in office,
the Presdient "hasn't even moved  the needle" on "jobs creation."

In my day, that would have been "*job* creation."

But my day is past.

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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