[Ads-l] a stiff upper chin

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Feb 16 14:44:21 UTC 2015


CNN:

"But folks here in Boston are dealing with it with a stiff upper chin."

Most of the 63,000 raw Googlits seem to refer to Samuel Goldwyn's
malapropism.

But only most.  The guy on CNN seemed fairly serious.

JL

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