A kind reader informs me that I missed a howler from the first press conference given by President-elect Obama in the wake of his election:
“It’s not going to be quick, and it’s not going to be easy to dig ourselves out of the hole that we’re in,” Mr. Obama said, declaring that he wants to see “a rescue plan for the middle class” and a further extension of unemployment-insurance benefits.
(Emphasis mine.) Really, we have been through this.
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"Where ya want that hole dug, boss?"
Erick Brockway (Diary) Sunday, November 9th at 3:55AM EST (link)Maybe Mr. President Elect wants us to dig another hole to fill in the first?
Kinda like the Marine Recruit in Boot Camp;
“Who put that hole there?”
“I,I don’t know Sir!”
“Fill it in Boot!”
“Sir, Yes Sir!”
dig dig dig
“Who put that hole there?”
“Ummm…”
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A Hole
Scope (Diary) Sunday, November 9th at 9:20AM EST (link)Apparently Obama never learned the well know- WHEN YOU’RE IN A HOLE, STOP DIGGING.”
Freudian Slip
QueenOfCups (Diary) Sunday, November 9th at 9:35AM EST (link)He wants to keep digging.
This is foolish
Badill_T Sunday, November 9th at 9:59AM EST (link)You’re ignoring the fact that “to dig out of a hole” is a common expression in American English to get a small dig on Obama (see what I did there?)
It’s called an idiom.
This is ridiculous; has this website come to celebrate ignorance?
Your concern is noted, Badill_T.
Moe Lane (Diary) Sunday, November 9th at 10:15AM EST (link)In the future, please make all further complaints of this level of pettiness or – above? below? – anyway, make them to the Directors via email. Less waste of bandwidth this way.
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Actually, I believe it's a "figure of speech"
Bill S (Diary) Sunday, November 9th at 10:25AM EST (link)figure of speech: –noun Rhetoric.
any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def. 1).
idiom: –noun
1. an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one’s head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
I don’t know about the site, but frequently our comments celebrate a lot of ignorance, and display it, too.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
plenty to go around
duckhawk Sunday, November 9th at 4:30PM EST (link)I admit that I’m still not clear on the precise definitions, but apparently it is an idiom in Cambridge’s book.
This poster gets a lot of things right, but that’s no reason to hide behind semantics when he gets it wrong — especially on such substance-poor points.
But you have to admit
itrytobenice (Diary) Sunday, November 9th at 5:37PM EST (link)It’s funny that we are in a hole (by unanimous consent) and that BOs solution involves more digging.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.