A real Britishism?

[Wilson Gray]

"Let's not be _pulling threads_ on this." I.e. "Don't sweat the small shit."

Spoken by Seth McFarlane in his "Stewie Griffin" persona.

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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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