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"You can buy that dog some time," he said about Anipryl, "Buy it an extra year where you would have been at your wits' end in a sort of latrine situation."
An inspired originator of compounds ( cloud-capp'd towers; home-keeping wits), Shakespeare created no fewer than 273 for anatomy alone, cited with almost palpable enthusiasm by Professor Spevack.
Dogs pursuing this game have to have their wits about them, be fit, and be persistent.
Devlin and Emmerich's Godzilla is accused of being annoyingly Spielbergian and lacking personality as well as wits: "Any forefather (and, given his reproductive capacities, foremother) of a new species that chooses to travel halfway around the globe to lay his eggs in the middle of Manhattan doesn't seem built to survive, evolutionarily speaking" (David Edelstein, Slate ). The film's failure (it's doing relatively poorly at the box office) may also be due to overexposure to disaster movies.
The threat of litigation tends to scare Chatterbox out of his wits, and by now Chatterbox wasn't at all sure he wanted to press ahead.