[Ads-l] to blow and go

[Jonathan Lighter]

The phrases may be regarded as complementaryl.

JL

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> On Jun 1, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Cf. "come and go."
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>> JL
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> 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!
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> --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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