A couple of heards:

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Red-headed stepchild" is the way I heard it, maybe thirty years ago.

JL


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "I avoid him like a red-neck relative."
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> "I'll beat you like a mixed-blood stepchild."
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