unearths some literary gems.
From Just in Time, by Phyllis Newman:
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He finally asked me out for a real date and I would have freaked, but the expression wasn't around then.
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Abe [Burrows] thinks like Immanuel Kant, but talks like Casey Stengel.
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They all phumphed...you know, uh, how do you say it...spoke elliptically.
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From then on we were home free, or at least home, marked down.
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