[Ads-l] deuce

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Worthless individual; "loser."

This is in HDAS but has not been reported in many decades.  Yet how else
explain this?

"If I'm ever in the same room with that deuce [a prominent politician], I
hope he raises those tiny little fists in front me..."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-tries-bend-reality-epic-161832940.html

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

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