[Ads-l] New to me: "go pear-shaped"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon May 9 18:03:28 UTC 2016


Heard on an NCIS re-run a minute ago. About 118,000 hits. Definitions range
from the OD to the UD.

Clearly, I'm behind the curve, again.

-- 
-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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