"a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jun 2 17:02:47 UTC 2012


Extensive use on Saturday Night Live.

     VS-)

On 6/2/2012 11:58 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> Since when did this Yiddish term enter common English? I heard it from Jews
> while growing up in NYC, but am surprised at its universality today.
>
> DanG
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Alice Faber<faber at haskins.yale.edu>  wrote:
>
>> verklempt

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