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Subject:To medal or not to medal From:Arthur Comings <atc -at- CORTE-MADERA -dot- GEOQUEST -dot- SLB -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 16 Feb 1994 11:00:56 PST
We here in Fairfax, CA, use "To medal in someone's business" to denote
pervasive interference in someone else's affairs to the extent that the
affairs are actually improved, and the outsider deserves recognition.