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Bob Talbert, Detroit Free Press

(June 1, 1970)

Writers sit around and contemplate their novels.

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Bob Talbert, Detroit Free Press

(6170) He who laughs last didn't get the joke. www.english-slang.com

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Susan Dooley, Washington Post, 1987

The curse of the Irish is not that they don't know the words to a song--it's that they know them all.

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[arse over tit] {v.} [Head over heels], to fall over or take a tumble.