Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jan 16 04:40:42 CET 2014

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Ethan Furman wrote:
> Well, I'm not sure what "booted into touch" means,

It's a rugby term, referring to kicking the ball
over the touch line.

As a metaphor, it seems to mean making a problem
go away.

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Greg

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