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[US] Discover Nov. 30: Hospitals have a reputation for [...] crude jargon: the difficult patients labeled gomers [...] the doctors referred to as 007s (licensed to kill).
at 007, n.
[US] Discover IX 70: You have it [i.e. a theory] by the short and curlies.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
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