"war with words"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yahoo! news headline:


Magic Johnson calls off his needless, one-sided war with words with Lakers
coach Mike D'Antoni.

It's a kind of "war" that uses words as "weapons." The absurd "war of
words," said by old people, means that the words "belong to" the war. Which
is just so bogus and illogical.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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