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Conditions aren't as bad as union protests indicate, and immigrant laborers grouse only about losing work to cheaper factories abroad.
As long as we're talking about cyber protocol, allow me to grouse about why computers constantly have to tell us more about their own internal activities than anybody wants to know.
Membership in the Indoor Bird Watchers is granted to those who have identified the following birds through the bottom of a Martini glass, while seated--The Extra-Marital Lark, the Great American Regret, the Morning Grouse, the After-Dinner Pee Wee, the Double-Breasted Seersucker, and the Rosy-Breasted Pushover.
1. ant : termite :: grouse : ?
I cannot recall a more gratuitous grouse than Sarah Kerr's questioning, in an otherwise estimable piece, of the "reader-friendliness" of the Library of America's Gertrude Stein volumes ("What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate").