[Ads-l] settin' on your thumb

[Jonathan Lighter]

Middle-aged white lady, Roberts Co., Tex., on CNN:

"It's not like he [the President of the United States]'s been settin' down,
settin' on his thumb doin' nothin'."

Cf. "Get your thumb out of your ass [and get to work]!"

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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