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To: Corin Stormhands
It's meaning isn't clear to me....

I looked it up and it seems to mean "an obstacle or fly in the ointment" but I can't figure what the root of it would have been.
1,260 posted on 02/03/2004 6:23:30 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
Oh, on "hearing" it on the other thread, I understood it. Could be a southern thang. I just hadn't caught that here.

Maybe there's also a "sanitized" version of it.
1,263 posted on 02/03/2004 6:25:22 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (www.wardsmythe.com)
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