From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... top and
come through to the bottom, ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Some would start at the top
and come through to the bottom, becoming club members; others started in the club, pitched a binge, were hospitalized, then graduated to education
on the third floor.
2.
... top blew
through and through.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
3.
... top of
the heap, or to hide ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
4.
... top of
them lay the foreword to ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
5.
... top over
an outlay of twenty-five dollars' ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an
A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.
6.
... top priority
rating.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
7.
... top public
approval swept in, we realized ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
As this tide offering
top public approval swept in, we realized that it could do us incalculable good or great harm.
8.
... top secret.
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
We cannot declare A.A. such a closed corporation that we keep
our knowledge and experience top secret.
9.
... top to
bottom.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom.
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