I think "all-in" has to do with poker-chips.
(...and then he reads the New Yorker article...)
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- Wed Jun 10, 2020 2:26 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: all-out / all-in / all out / all in
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4651
- Wed Jun 10, 2020 2:25 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: all-out / all-in / all out / all in
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4651
Re: all-out / all-in / all out / all in
That's an out-'n'-out lie. edit: a search of this site reveals more hyphenation-problems: "The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: out and out." That looks like three common words, out and and and out. "Too common" probably ought to be hyphenated, at ...
- Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:37 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: onboarding
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5440
Re: onboarding
I have been on-the-same-paged.
- Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:04 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: (The) Wirral
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8232
Re: (The) Wirral
Idaho pushes the potato-identity.
Yes, it is heaven-on-Earth, but they don't want anyone to know.
At least that is the impression I got from Peter Jenkins' A Walk Across America.
Yes, it is heaven-on-Earth, but they don't want anyone to know.
At least that is the impression I got from Peter Jenkins' A Walk Across America.
- Thu Feb 27, 2020 4:56 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: kitsch
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13022
Re: kitsch
It has a Yiddish sound but may be ersatz.
- Mon Feb 17, 2020 11:15 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: J S Bach
- Replies: 13
- Views: 20384
Re: J S Bach
Johan B. Sidehimself
- Sat Feb 15, 2020 7:10 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: shambolic (2)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16459
Re: shambolic (2)
Everything is new again!
- Sat Feb 15, 2020 7:08 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: In/into
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9482
Re: In/into
...which reminds me of one I'm really into: "They turned themselves into the police."
- Sat Feb 15, 2020 6:58 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: sui generis
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11906
Re: sui generis
weird bird
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 1:04 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: shambolic (2)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16459
Re: shambolic
The unfortunate Keystone Cops of Iran seem bent on illustrating shambolism.
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 1:01 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: gingerly
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9056
Re: gingerly
I cardamomly agree.
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 8:06 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: flip off
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9052
Re: flip off
Around here the appearance of the term was contemporaneous with the rise of digital communications.
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 1:05 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: "Last straw"/Clochandichter
- Replies: 41
- Views: 45762
Re:
Maybe searching for helpful Google-hits would help.John Barton wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:53 am ...CLOCHANDICHTER, to which I can find only one unhelpful Google hit. ...
- Sun Oct 13, 2019 10:06 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Crescent seating
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6970
Re: Crescent seating
window-seat
- Sun Oct 13, 2019 12:27 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Between you and I
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13139
Re: Between you and I
Yes, and there is always. as just seen on "the History Blog" site, " The finders had turned them into the museum", in which four silver coins are "turned into" a museum. The magic continues.