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a trout) by tickling its underbelly' (which is actually easier than it sounds); and gurn, girn , is incorrectly defined as “to snarl, to show the teeth in anger”: it really means `to make faces.
Safire dismisses the exculpatory remarks by Hubbell concerning Hillary's innocence, etc. as what FBI parlance calls "tickling the wire"--producing self-serving statements because you know you are being overheard.
Regarding the May 21 "Today's Papers": If Richard Nixon's "but it would be wrong" is really the classic example of what Safire calls "tickling the wire," how do you explain the fact that no hush money was raised or paid as a result of the March 1973 Watergate-era tape to which you refer?