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To the woodshed

Posted by Gary Martin on November 04, 2005

In a recent radio interview a US politician suggested that George Bush should "take him [one of his advisers] to the woodshed".

What would they be doing there? In the UK woodsheds are just sheds to keep wood in.

Gary

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