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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    He should be hung… no,  meat’s hung,  people are hanged. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Not always.  @Hostafan1 Very useful for a scrabbler
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They can be well-hung, I've heard
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Lucked out, seems to be used by Americans to mean had a stroke of luck. It always sounds like the opposite to me. Not a phrase I’d ever use anyway.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've always had difficulty with that one too
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I guess re-doubling efforts means, or should mean, quadrupling, but what does double-down mean? I infer it means increase, but does it? 
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Maybe it means fold over double
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Grown up women saying "icky" and they don't appear to even know the meaning of the word 
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    BenCotto said:
    I guess re-doubling efforts means, or should mean, quadrupling, but what does double-down mean? I infer it means increase, but does it? 
    Perhaps it means "a winter duvet"!
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Do you regard the phrase ‘in and of itself’ a tautological and somewhat lofty affectation, or just a repetition of the same idea for emphasis?

    It jars with me, as does ‘front and centre’, but I don’t really know why I get irritated by these phrases. Maybe it is because I associate them with earnest speeches from Corbynites.
    Rutland, England
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