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Essay:Best New Conservative Words (view source)

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"smoking gun" brings 1900s only 2 away from another perfect geometric fit
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|term has been widely used for decades to expose the fallacy of "it doesn't hurt to try"
 
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|a law-and-order term, "smoking gun" was first used as figurative term in a reported judicial decision in ''Rodgers v. United States Steel Corp.'', 1975 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12775 (W.D. Pa. Apr. 20, 1975), and many literal uses of the term in court decisions before that!
 
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