[Ads-l] to blow and go

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Jun 1 15:09:20 UTC 2016


> On Jun 1, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Cf. "come and go."
> 
> JL

Now now, that gets a 12 thumbs up and 20 thumbs down, so it doesn't count as a bona fide (or should that be bonified?) lemma.  Democracy rules!

--LH, assuming that was *not* what the ladies in the room were doing while talking of Michelangelo 
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> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>> On Jun 1, 2016, at 8:06 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>> 
>>> MSNBC's Joe Scarborough says of the high turnover in D. Trump's small
>>> advisory staff:
>>> 
>>> "They blow and go."
>>> 
>>> Once again, UrbanDictionary will tell you the picture you should have
>>> in your head,
>>> 
>> I'll assume we're talking about the entry invoking a breathalyzer workaround...
>> 
>> LH
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