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The Chronicle of Higher Ed had this quote today:

"Banks are dictating what they want and how they want it," said Humberto F. Gonçalves, senior vice president for finance at Simmons College, who has heard of financial institutions' charging fees as high as one percent in recent weeks for converting variable-rate bonds. "They've got you by the short hairs, and they're yanking on them."

I thought "the short hairs" were, you know, short and curlies (as they like to say). Which makes that phrase colorful, but maybe a little TOO colorful for the paper.

Am I just behind the times? Has this phrase become so common that it's no longer racy?

Damn, Stanford.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2041220220080221