[Ads-l] _to have it snaked_ "to be assured of success, to have it made"

[Wilson Gray]

Not in Green's

Jambeaux - Page 68
https://books.google.com/books?id=35B5AAAAMAAJ
Laurence Gonzales - 1979 - ‎Snippet view
"But we're not ready," Scoop whimpered. "Nothin' to it," Link said. " We
_got it snaked_."

"Got it snaked" was common in the military from ca. 1960, when I first
heard it.. The author is a Vietnam vet.

-- 
-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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