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Sat Dec 21, 2024, 04:28 AM

Saturday

Making whoopee

Jive turkey

Here's a dime. Call somebody who cares. (A dime ain't getting you much of anything these days.)

As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rockers

You bet your sweet bippy!

Six of one, half a dozen of the other (My dad used to say that a lot.)

Bob's your uncle

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