[Ads-l] a stiff upper chin

[Jonathan Lighter]

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

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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