[Ads-l] Heard on Dr. Phil:

[Wilson Gray]

"He [alcoholic hubby and dad] was literally walking sideways, down the
middle of the street!"

This suggests to me that the otherwise opaque phrase, "to get sideways,"
means "to get drunk." Of course,

Youneverknow.

-- 
-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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