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#74785 07/02/2002 1:34 PM
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From the same newspaper article mentioned in my "culminating" thread:
I don't know that that level of detail has been flushed out yet.

Can we confirm that the proper idiom is "flushed out"?
And what is the source of that idiom?


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Keiva: you started a flamewar, and would not quit
You were banned, and got back only by threat of a lawsuit.
You are unwelcome to post in AWADtalk.



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