[Ads-l] Syntactic blend: "If we just blow this under the rug"

[Cohen, Gerald L.]

I heard an interesting syntactic blend today
in reference to Signalgate:
      If we just blow this under the rug,...

From:  ...sweep this under the rug
              ...blow this off

Spoken on TV by Va. Senator Mark Warner.

Gerald Cohen



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