[Ads-l] go full bull

[Jonathan Lighter]

That too.

JL

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Dec 19, 2014, at 3:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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> > John Avlon of the Daily Beast says on CNN that lame-duck presidents like
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> > "go full-bull."
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> > I.e., all out.  Not in Urban Dictionary.
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> > 2000 ...
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> related to "go full-bore"?
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> arnold
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