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Jay Berman's avatar

Idiom alert: Light dawning over Marblehead is quite the Massachusetts thing to say.

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Steve Berman's avatar

There’s no good southern equivalent, maybe “bless his heart” but that doesn’t quite fit.

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Chris J. Karr's avatar

I've only heard the word "yip" used in the context of sports until this week. It's usually something someone has when there's a mental disconnect between a player's ability and their recent poor performance: "That batter's been struggling with a case of the yips."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yips

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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

Very common in golf with respect to putting.

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David Thornton's avatar

Scary stuff when we start talking about the potential collapse of the entire US or world economy, especially when it’s for no good reason.

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SGman's avatar

Hahahahaha...he just keeps killing the arguments for these tariffs except as an exercise in setting up his personal control over our economy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20xn626y81o

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