"measuring the drapes"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Now fully lexicalized.

Gloria Borger on CNN: "Measuring the drapes is never a good political
strategy."

No explanatory antecedent, no ref. to where the "drapes" might be.

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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