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Post-Paula, Starr will find the political world a harsher place, predict Jack Germond and Evan Thomas ( Inside Washington ), Steve Roberts (CNN's Late Edition ), and David Gergen ( The McLaughlin Group ). Starr must deliver a "blockbuster" wad of evidence to make a splash, says Mark Shields (CNN's Capital Gang ). With the Jones matter resolved, the public and the pols will lean on Starr to finish his work pdq, say Thomas, Shields, Eleanor Clift ( The McLaughlin Group ), and Juan Williams (Fox News Sunday ).
But we own Washington," says Gulcher Vernon Jordan, flashing a smile and a wad of Ben Franklins.
Of course, the Cell Phone Haters Club has already convened an emergency meeting to discuss these exciting rat-related findings, which was the whole reason I had to rush out of the house so early this morning instead of helping you feed all the children, round up lunch money, sign permission slips for field trips to the Bronx Zoo in June, pick a wad of gum from the baby's hair and hustle the older ones off to the bus without jackets.
d) You can stuff the wad of coins, bills, and receipts in your pocket or purse to be sorted out at home later.
It is not always easy to ascertain whether the underlying metaphor in such expressions is the bow and arrow or the gun and cannon (see Peter A. Douglas's “The Bows' Stratagem,” VERBATIM VI,3), but we can be fairly certain that the wad in shooting one's wad refers to the wad that held the powder and shot in position to be fired from early guns and that the pot in potshot signifies the dinner pot to be filled with an animal that was shot close up without any regard for rules.
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