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found it a risky investment. But management, he said, “seems to exhume confidence.” This wasn’t what the writer meant. To “exhume” is to bring from obscurity. Mangement was exuding, not exhuming.
You’ve got to admire, after a fashion, the third-year student at the University of Arizona who wrote to the Daily Wildcat in January. He began on a temperate note: “A plethora of nitwittery is emanating from the foaming mouths of Democrats and other commie liberals.” He was especially irked by “their endless avocation of gun control.” The gentleman was reaching for “advocacy,” but his bluderbuss misfired.
Often it’s difficult to figure out what a writer was reaching for. The San Francisco Examiner in January described a transportation problem after the earthquake. Residents of Santa Clarita could get to work only by using the winding, two-lane Sierra Highway. “What resulted was a traffic backup of biblical proportions.” What’s a biblical proportion? Two fish and a bowl of manna?
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