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[US] Conservative (Nebraska City, NE) 10 Aug. 3/3: Language has become so twisted that even a Philadelphipa lawyer could not tell [...] what constitutionalism means.
at Philadelphia lawyer, n.
[US] Conservative (Nebraska City, NE) 26 Oct. 3/2: The aforesaid ex-pulpit pounder [...] had been once sentenced to be hung.
at pulpit-banger (n.) under pulpit, n.
[US] Conservative (Nebraska City, NE) 19 July 4/3: Occasionally I get on a little jerkwater road that is not in the combination.
at jerkwater, adj.
[US] Conservative (Nebraska City, NE) 13 Mar. 5/3: Sons of sturdy fathers [...] waving their sheepskin diplomas ahead of them wherever they go.
at sheepskin, n.
[US] Conservative (Nebraska City, NE) 16 Nov. 12/1: We have permanently enriched the English language by adding to it the verb ‘to rubberneck’.
at rubberneck, v.
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