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

[Laurence Horn]

Veddy British, no?  Has it invaded the Colonies?

LH


> On May 9, 2016, at 2:03 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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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