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Going to the hardware store for milk

Posted by ESC on October 12, 2007

Another way of saying "barking up the wrong tree."

"If Ms. Ronson is attempting to get some sort of relief in court and to show that (Perez Hilton) had any malice, I think she's going to a hardware store for milk. It's just not going to happen."

- Attorney BRYAN J. FREEDMAN, on his celebrity blogger client, who is being sued by Lindsay Lohan's friend Samantha Ronson for defamation after he claimed Ronson planted cocaine in Lohan's car

Quote of the Day, The Buzz, Courier Journal, Louisville, Ky., October 12, 2007.

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