"Don=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99t_?=let the door hit you in the butt on the way out"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> So it means "leave quickly." Thank you. I wonder how many other people don't get that.

Well, that's what the original form means, sort of.

"Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out"

means…

Who knows? What would cause Tim Cook's office door - or any other
office door - to hit on the butt a person going through it, anyway? If
it does happen, then the person hit should sue.
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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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