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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
NIP occurs
one time
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... nip of
the wringer.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
He had
felt only the
first
nip of the
wringer.
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