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One day during a visit to Taipei, S. J. Perelman was accosted by a gang of prostitutes and had great difficulty shaking them off. "A case," he later explained, "of the tail dogging the wag."


Perelman, Sidney Joseph (1904-1979) American humorist and screenwriter [noted for his scripts for several Marx Brothers' films and for his short stories and sketches for The New Yorker]

[Sources: Willard R. Espy, Another Almanac of Words at Play]


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