[Ads-l] "take one for the team"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Now a former RNC Chair, Ronna McDaniel has joined NBC News as a "news
analyst," saying she only supported false claims of a stolen election for
three years because "sometimes you have to take one for the team."

1972 _Houston Post_ (May 19) 7B: I suggested to Channel 13's Ken Johnson
that they "take one for the team" by putting Cavett on earlier, but he
wasn't familiar with the expression.

The phrase seems to have taken off only in the 1980s.

JL

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

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