[Ads-l] QOTY, incl. "clean," n.

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Wed Nov 28 15:50:33 UTC 2018


On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:25 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> "I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain
> can ever tell me.”
>

The apotheosis of Colbert-style truthiness, i.e., "truth that comes from
the gut, not books."

--bgz

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