"razor tight" --- (blend on "Meet the Press")

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:16 PM, "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at MST.EDU> wrote:

> Today on "Meet the Press" David Gregory spoke of the polling in Ohio, with Obama and Romney each at 49 percent. And he described it as "razor tight".  This is a blend in regard to the margin: "extremely tight" +  "razor thin".

reply on my blog:

http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/razor-tight/

arnold

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