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get while the gettin 's good |
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get (out) while the gettin(g)'s good and get (out) while the goin(g)'s good to leave while it is still safe or possible to do so. I could tell that it was time for me to get while the gettin's good. I told her she should get out while the gain's good. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This image is as starkly numinous as many of the most alienating passages in McCarthy's previous books, but it conveys something quite different, a peculiarly human warmth: "It was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. The husband-and-wife team of David Lentz and Suzanne Goin is preparing to open a seafood restaurant and raw bar in mid-November at the Sunset + Vine complex. Mother and Nanny's dependency and subservience is manifested in their use of negative yes no questions such as: "You ain't goin to build a barn over there we was goin' to have a house, father? |
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