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  • What does “It’s the loyalty (or the economy), stupid,” mean?
    The phrase: It’s the economy, stupid Is using stupid as though it were the name of the person you are addressing It’s a noun of direct address, or a vocative use It is like saying: It’s the economy, you stupid person Of course this is very disrespectful But that is what it means
  • etymology - Origin of do not argue with idiots - English Language . . .
    How about “If you argue with an idiot, there are two idiots” – Robert Kiyosaki? My usual go-to for quotes is wikiquotes, and they don't list that Mark Twain quote on their page, nor does it come up in JSTOR Similarly with Greg King This is not proof, but it does make it a bit suspect, and wrongly attributed quotes are depressingly common
  • Proper use of prescience prescient with implicit subject
    If I am sending an email with the subject line: Look at how spot on the Economist was with the Real Estate Bubble In the body of the email, I quote 2 paragraphs from the article and write a co
  • Word, phrase or idiom for reaping the consequences of false belief in . . .
    Most reasonable people would classify the action in question as "stupid", though, which suggests the person doing it must have some reason for doing so (whether that's inattention or misplaced confidence)
  • translation - Equivalent to the Chinese quote, (mis)attributed to JFK . . .
    I've been looking for an English equivalent of the Chinese, "不怕神一样的对手 就怕猪一样的队友," which has been, rather directly, translated as: We fear not God-like rivals, but pig-like team members and rather
  • vocatives - Is the stupid in Keep it simple, stupid a form of . . .
    Can you explain why you think that the second reading (comma means and) is a viable candidate for a reasonable interpretation of this saying (so that an argument is needed to rule it out)? To me, and I suppose a fair number of other people, this reading appears to be a non-starter (what would it be to keep something stupid and why would it be a good thing?) It would probably make the page
  • What does the phrase Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish mean?
    This quote is the farewell message placed on the back cover of the 1974 edition of The Whole Earth Catalog Steve Jobs was a fan of the magazine In his words: On the back of the cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous Beneath it were the words: 'Stay hungry Stay foolish ' The
  • Money quote: Phrase Origin, metaphors involved?
    It's a Phrase Origin search, which I'm pretty bad at (because I don't really care when a phrase originated; I'm much more interested in the metaphors it's involved with) So I decided to post it here for her She frequently encounters the phrase money quote on her favorite blog, and was unfamiliar with it
  • Origin and meaning of from out of left field
    What is the origin of the phrase from out of left field? My understanding is that the meaning is unexpected, or odd Is that correct? Real world examples of the phrase being used badly would be gr
  • grammaticality - Do I need to use the in this sentence? - English . . .
    I was also tempted to post a lot of examples like "It's the economy, stupid" and "a day in politics is a long time" but I can't really explain in more detail precisely why you do need the article for the economy





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