[Ads-l] shellfish

[Joel Berson]

I can imagine this as a metaphor -- ignoring the rest of the world by retreating into one's shell.

Joel


      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 11:09 AM
 Subject: [ADS-L] shellfish
   
A youthful Sanders supporter in Miami tells CNN about Trump:

"He's thinking, 'I don't care about anyone else. I care about me!' That to
me is extremely shellfish."

Not a lapse. Google finds a good number ex. of "extremely shellfish" [sic]
back to at least 2005.

JL

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

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