[Ads-l] TV dialogue

[Wilson Gray]

Internal dialogue of the chief of police, as he prepares to shoot:

"_From this short of a distance_, I feel that I can't miss."

Six hits for the *exact phrase*, the oldest from 2006.

IMO, this is a commonplace structure, as being able to find the exact
phrase indicates, but YMMV.

Youneverknow.

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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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