[Ads-l] tree-shaker, jelly-maker

[Jonathan Lighter]

Mika Brzezinski warns that Hillary can't start waving her arms madly on
stage in response to T---p.

Dem strategist Donna Brazile says, "That's the tree-shaker. She's the
jelly-maker."

GB (not verified) 1985 _The Crisis_ XCII   : OIC would be the jelly maker
who comes behind, but it took the tree shaker to get the apples off the
tree in the first place.

.GB (not verified) 1988 _Newsweek_ CXI: As he becomes an increasingly
powerful candidate, Jesse Jackson dislikes being reminded that he once said
he was a "tree shaker, not a jelly maker."

Etc.

JL


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