Ceci n'est pas un umbrella
2004
mollycoddled has made a strange and sinister comeback.
tote for collapsible umbrella, tote bag. Why, since we carry
things and don’t tote them?
road warrior
proof-of-concept
(Whatever that means.)
poky seems to have come back as term of abuse, but not with
its original meaning of cramped, shabby etc. Americans use it to mean
“annoyingly slow”. It can also mean small, insignificant, provincial,
dull. (Gone 2009.)
mimsy for girly in a tedious, whiny sort of way
came for happened, occurred (last five years)
all over the map for all over the place
Bite me! Is this something to do with a television series
about vampires?
relentless
slouching towards
for blundering towards (it’s from a poem by W.B. Yeats)
jump for any kind of increase
values People have started talking about values again in the
context of asylum seekers not understanding ours. Like family values and
Victorian values, these are rarely specified. Possibly they are things
like democracy, free speech, obeying the law and women having the vote,
but why not say so?
refrain for mantra
undulate for fluctuate
I’m loving it We’re loving Britney Spears, I’m loving the
frumpy look.
push and pull factors (never found out what these were, too
late now)
2005
bar mitzvah arms now called bingo wings
graceful it’s not It’s been around for years, but very
popular Jan 2005.
marmite for something everybody either loves or hates (eg
Marmite Ken [Livingstone])
serves him well or, if American, just “serves well”
suck in money, troops, business, workers
Miss Marple is still with
us (but only in the context of tweed, sadly)
BOGOF buy one, get one free
bling-bling has become bling
uptalking Has it gone out? Please?
prepping for preparing
anthracite for dark grey (Why, when no one under 40 has ever
seen anthracite?)
slice and dice for plastic surgery etc
hopping bus hopping, doctor hopping, religion hopping
maybe not perhaps popularised by that ad for nappies with the
Scottish voiceover
dipping sauce
mojo
is back, especially in the context of having lost it
vanguardist
churn
for turnover? rotation? flipping back and forth? Hurricane Rita
churning toward Texas, Louisiana – CNN
dislocation for disparity etc. Michael Philips, managing
partner at Apax in Europe, said there was a dislocation between the
perception of Tommy Hilfiger in the US and elsewhere – Guardian Sept. 24
05 (disparity) ... which in turn relates to drug use, discrimination
and social dislocation or exclusion. Guardian Dec. 12 05 (doesn’t seem
to mean anything) said in a statement that Katrina would cause energy
price volatility and "dislocation" to the US economy... Guardian Sept.
21 05 (disruption) as evidence of a cash crisis that is about to cause
major dislocation of health services... Guardian Sept. 7 05 (disruption,
disturbance) committing copycat crimes motivated by unarticulated
motives of political-religious protest and moral dislocation... Guardian
Aug. 21 05 (ignorance? lack of connection? misunderstanding?) People
don’t feel displaced any more but dislocated. (Over 2009.)
What were they thinking?
swell for increase
there’s an X thing going on
disconnect (noun) for fracture, break, rupture, split etc.
wiggle room seems to have gone out
back in the day
divisive
sleepwalking into/towards... (October)
matchy matchy décor, clothes
scale back (ie lower) charges etc.
recuse American Heritage Dictionary: To disqualify or seek to
disqualify from participation in a decision on grounds such as
prejudice or personal involvement.
resile (from) recover, like being resilient
inroads for advances
N-n-n-n-no for no
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