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- noun figuratively An
intellectual orphilosophical issue abounding with seeminglyunresolvable problems; atheoretical quandary orimpasse .
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One Response to “another “briar-patch” psyop” kei&yuri, nyarlathotep says:
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One good reason for a golf tradition of wearing long pants only when the temp is under 85 or so is that when your ball is out of bounds you often have to trudge thru a briar-patch with poison ivey highlights.
"Obama's Golf Shorts: Should Grown Men Wear Shorts? (PHOTOS, POLL)." Ann Althouse 2009
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Care to join me for a drink before you disappear into your computerized briar-patch?
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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Care to join me for a drink before you disappear into your computerized briar-patch?
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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Care to join me for a drink before you disappear into your computerized briar-patch?
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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Care to join me for a drink before you disappear into your computerized briar-patch?
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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Care to join me for a drink before you disappear into your computerized briar-patch?
Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000
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You will not expect me to speak on politics -- I have just escaped from that briar-patch, and I am still using linament.
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By and by he saw Peter Rabbit coming down the Lone Little Path from the Green Forest on his way to the dear old briar-patch on the Green
Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1918
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One morning he surprised a fox eating a rabbit which it had just caught in a briar-patch, and made such a sudden rush upon Reynard that he fled in hot haste, leaving the rabbit for the bear.
Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Clarence Hawkes 1901
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