[Ads-l] Not something to lose sleep over, but...

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jun 30, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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>> Am I right in assuming there's less here than meets the eye?
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> 
> That's my immediate opinion, too. When stuff keeps you up at night, that's
> literally what it does. There's nothing metaphoric about it.
> -- 
> -Wilson

Agreed.  But somehow, when I read the thesis that 'the phrase "lose sleep over" [perhaps] comes from "Lion doesn't lose sleep over opinion of sheep."', all I can think of is a combo platter of 
of Wimoweh's "In the jungle/The mighty jungle/The lion sleeps tonight" and Woody Allen's "The lion shall lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep".

LH
 
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