[Ads-l] _break nasty_ "suddenly get threateningly angry, brush off, shine on, ig"

[Wilson Gray]

> I always try to "bust cool."

That's pretty cool!

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:22 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I always try to "bust cool."  As in _West Side Story_.
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:14 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A Late Summer’s Fire
> > https://books.google.com/books?isbn=152450405X
> > Sandra Rorie - 2016 - ‎Preview
> > I didn't know if I was going to be quiet and not confront him. It
> wouldn't
> > do any good. I knew from many times in the past that he would just _break
> > nasty_ and still deny that he was having an affair with this woman.
> >
> > The UD, 2005:
> > Break Nasty
> > (v): 1. to go the hell off on someone
> > 2. to inform someone of their monumentous mistake
> > the meanest way you possibly can
> > 3. to inform someone of their incompetence
> >
> >
> > I use "break nasty on," but one of my brothers, about twenty years
> younger
> > than I am, prefers "break nasty with." He learned the phrase in
> Sacramento,
> > whereas I learned it in Los Angeles.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > 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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-- 
-Wilson
-----
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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