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."
Idiom alert: Light dawning over Marblehead is quite the Massachusetts thing to say.
There’s no good southern equivalent, maybe “bless his heart” but that doesn’t quite fit.
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
Very common in golf with respect to putting.
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.
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