Snake Mary
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jul 30 21:39:30 UTC 2014
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> In WVE also to "give somebody a hunch" used to mean to give them a
> figurative nudge. Hence, "hunch," an inkling.
>
There's a clearer explication in HDAS, Jon. ;-)
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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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