who laid the rail
adv. phr.— «Well yes, there’s trucks setting there full of cold water heaters. I mean I got groundhogs running to who laid the rail from there.» —by Robert Marshek Minutes Of The Informal Meeting Of The Johnson County Board Of Supervisors (Iowa) May 9, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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