[Ads-l] "Making the nut" explained

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:23 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, the "nut" is a small initial payment one makes in the hope that
> one will obtain a large return.
>

Okay. I can dig it. Works for me, even in the case wherein the metaphorical
"small, initial payment" is the literal nut holding on a wagon wheel. ;-)

-- 
-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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