Your big-boy pants

[Jonathan Lighter]

I meant to write Constitutional "authority."

JL


On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > strap your big-boy pants on
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> Judge Marilyn Milian has been using "Put on your big boy pants!" as her
> favorite English catch-phrase since she went on the air in the spring of
> 2001.
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