Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to
catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone
forever.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/4/89
(reported in Esquire, 8/92)

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