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- adjective Hard-hitting
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Examples
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It stands to reason that 144 years from now, our own surefire laugh lines will be as mysterious to our descendents as "sockdologizing" is to us.
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We learn ... that the canny thespian John Wilkes Booth, stalking Lincoln that fateful April evening at Ford's Theater, waited for a surefire laugh line to cover his shot; and that the line, a rejoinder in which a female character is dismissed as a ''sockdologizing old man trap,'' hasn't aged all that well.
President Garfield's "spine, removed during autopsy, was passed around to jurors during the trial of his assassin." Ann Althouse 2005
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I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal -- you sockdologizing old man-trap.
Our American Cousin Tom Taylor 1848
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Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal -- you sockdologizing old mantrap! "
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Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal; you sockdologizing old man-trap! "
KIKO'S HOUSE 2009
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Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal - you sockdologizing old man-trap. "
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Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal - you sockdologizing old man-trap. "
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