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bloody murder

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Some kids will run up and touch me and run away," Pilgreen says by phone from Vanuatu, a South Pacific archipelago about 1,100 miles east of Australia and 19 hours in the future, "and some will just scream bloody murder.
From arbitration ("a procedure enabling opponents to scream bloody murder at each other before going to trial and being inhibited by the decorum imposed in court") to yard ("A plot of dirt, grass, flowers, trees, shrubs, weeds and the like which Americans keep in front or back of their house for use as a spouse, child and dog dumping ground, and also for the convenience of the neighbors' cats"), each entry is delicious with irony, subtext, wit, and scorn for the self-absorbed.
Republicans cried bloody murder over McCain-Feingold's regulations on broadcast ads that mention candidates within 60 days of an election--regulations that, in their view, violated the First Amendment.
 
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