Etymologies
- jaw (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Zambians dismiss empty talk as more of the same "jaw-jaw.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Paul Zeitz: Let Freedom Ring -- Now! Now!!
“His actions, rather than his occasionally bombastic words, reveal a president more interested in jaw-jaw than war-war.”
The Guardian: Ronald Reagan was no hawk – and certainly no neocon | Mehdi Hasan
“Churchill is supposed to have said that "jaw-jaw" is always better than "war-war", but he never had to read Woodward on the subject.”
“Winston Churchill famously said, "It is better to jaw-jaw than war-war.”
The Huffington Post: Bishop Pierre Whalon: Jaw-Jaw Or War-War?
“Those of us who have been "jaw-jaw"-ing have even more items to talk about.”
The Huffington Post: Bishop Pierre Whalon: Jaw-Jaw Or War-War?
“But unless our dialogues are conducted not only in the respect that we are all people of faith -- the real ground we all share -- but also a quest to find the truth together, "jaw-jaw" will eventually be silenced, and new wars of religion will become inevitable.”
The Huffington Post: Bishop Pierre Whalon: Jaw-Jaw Or War-War?
“Christians and Muslims need to jaw-jaw a lot more, a lot more deeply, and more sincerely, if we are to be people on the road to peace.”
The Huffington Post: Bishop Pierre Whalon: Jaw-Jaw Or War-War?
“Since jaw-jaw is always better than war-war, the G-20 meeting in South Korea at the weekend must be considered a success.”
“Sometimes a canny silence is better than either jaw-jaw or war-war.”
The Guardian: Wapping's bulls should pull in their horns in row over BSkyB takeover
“Well, everybody would rather jaw-jaw than war-war.”
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Hyphenated Repeats
Exactly reduplicated words connected by a hyphen.
aye-aye, cleek-cleek, arc-arc, killy-killy, dum-dum, tom-tom, argon-argon, carbon-carbon, win-win, lose-lose, bye-bye, choo-choo and 113 more...
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The Sog Collection
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chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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sonofgroucho "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." Winston Churchill. Bush and Blair please note.
Feb 10, 2007