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Floating Opportunity
August 4, 2012 8:51 am
(@grantbarrett)
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"You'd better behave, or I'll knock you from an amazing grace to a floating opportunity!" This African-American saying, used as a motherly warning, first popped up in the 1930 play Mule Bone by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. This is part of a complete episode.
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