"smart off" and another metaphorical "north of" on NBC news

[Laurence Horn]

Interesting to me because I hadn't encountered it before.  I know, I've led a sheltered life.

LH

On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:02 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> "smart off"
> 
> 
> Uh, what's interesting about this, Lar?
> 
> 
> -- 
> -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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