Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 15:22:51 -0500
From: Beverly Flanigan FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU
Subject: new phrases?

Another "not too bright" phrase, just encountered in a _New Yorker_
review of a new play called "Griller," about a barbeque fiend: The
protagonist has a mother-in-law who's "a few sandwiches short of a
picnic."

On "Face the Nation" yesterday, somebody described the grilling
procedure (pun intended) of grand juries as "It ain't beanbagging."
Source and connotation, anyone?