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

[Jonathan Lighter]

You can "wise off" too, but only if you're smart enough.

JL


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > make it go
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> Is this a common variant of "make a go of it"?
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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