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Today’s Zippy, with a wave of mangled clichés:

I got “Fat chance”, “There’s strength in numbers”, “One good turn deserves another”, and “I’m on pins and needles”, plus “the wisdom of crowds” in the title, but I was momentarily stumped on lick Pawtucket (“kick the bucket”). The line between clichés and idioms is none too clear here.

(And note: “Scuffle, muffle, duffel, trick!”)

Conger on!

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