"man or beast"

[Joel S. Berson]

"Man or beast" with the latter as "girlfriend" must be the same error
as "music hath charms to soothe the savage beast".

Joel

At 9/30/2013 02:50 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>For one, brief, shining moment in '50's Los Angeles, _beast_ was extracted
>from this collocation and used among the young men of the local black
>bourgeoisie as a slang-term for "girlfriend."
>
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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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