Unbeatable phrasal verb

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Mar 27 19:58:15 UTC 2014


X-ing out the mistakes?  Z-ing away the afternoon?  F-ing up one's life?   (OK, that last one's cheating.)

LH

On Mar 27, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Pablo Dominguez wrote:

> "His father O-ing out the smoke...", wrote A.Burgess (Enderby Outside,
> London 1968, p.7)
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