Re: About time

In article <AmqVf.10319$k75.3404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Zev Sero <zev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Marilee J. Layman wrote:

I explained that to someone once and she said she preferred "to all
intensive purposes" anyway.

How about "taking something for granite", meaning that it's set in stone?

A friend of mine calls this entire category "tribal issues", after an
example he found in a legal brief, which referred to "a tribal issue of
fact"; and no, the case wasn't about aboriginal land rights.

"Tryable issue of fact?"

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