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Become disenchanted with, take a dislike to, as in At first they liked the new supervisor, but now they've soured on her. [c. 1860]

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Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
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It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
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Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
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And right after that, some nice sour milk would come splashing down into the trough of the pen.
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As soon as he was in it Squinty ran over to the trough, hoping there would be some sour milk in it.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
Why, he ordered his chamber-maid to bring him some soap and warm water, that he might wash the sour krout off his hands.
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They affirmed it was an antidote to all poison; that it expelled rheums, sour humours, and obstructions of all kinds.
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I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
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