[Ads-l] _shlong_ and the collective etymological unconscious

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Dec 29 19:41:08 UTC 2016


On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> "Dutch bluster"


Related to/of the same class as "Dutch courage"?


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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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