life-flight

life-flight
 v. phr.— «And that’s when he trots out his new verb. We’ve heard of someone being life-flighted. But Groundhog-Day-ing? Sure it’ll make the wonky hosts of “A Way With Words” shudder, but hey, it works.» —“Old hits, new horizons for John Michael Montgomery” by Rick Bell North County Times (California) June 13, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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