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"ref": "1977, Smokey and the Bandit (film), screenplay, 10:21 (retrieved 24 July 2015)",
"text": "I see our asses in a sling if we get caught, that's what I see."
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"ref": "1986 April 27, Howard Kurtz, “Reagan's People: Issues of Propriety”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-07-24",
"text": "Dempsey briefed senior HUD officials on federal ethics rules in early 1981, he said, \"and most of those who later got their ass in a sling sat there and ignored it.\"",
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"ref": "1995 December 19, Alex Sharkey, “Dear Roger Mear”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2015-07-24",
"text": "I think that kind of breathless egotism deserves little more than to limp home with its arse in a sling.",
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"ref": "2011 June 15, Aaron Schafer, “Cardinals Still Struggling to Spell Relief”, in Riverfront Times, retrieved 2015-07-24",
"text": "[T]he bullpen's continued ineffectiveness has to fall on John Mozeliak. . . . If it ends up with Johnny Mo's ass in a sling, so be it.",
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"ref": "2013 July, Ava Gardner, Peter Evans, “Three Men and a Goddess”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 2015-07-24",
"text": "[Frank Sinatra] asked me what I was doing. I said, \"The usual. Making pictures. You?\" He said, \"The usual. Getting my ass in a sling.\"",
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