[Ads-l] How do people turn clich=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A9s_?=bottomside upward?!

[Joel Berson]

Possibly the utterer is thinking of the Kochs brothers' money in the Justice's pockets.  More literal, and less metaphorically mysterious, than the Justices being in the Koch brothers' pockets?


Joel

      From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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 Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 1:20 PM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] How do people turn clichés bottomside upward?!
   
Nice.  Yup, another reversal.  Make room, "substitute", "let alone", "much less", and friends...  (The Justices in question would need deeper pockets than we know about if they're going to fit the Kochs in there.)

LH


> On Jul 10, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Facebookery:
> 
> "The Koch brothers are in some of the Justices' pockets!"
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> -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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