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“It is an unfair generalization and a put-down not worthy of Boing Boing. coaxial replied to comment from Antinous/Moderator”
“The South, Barbour's comments and the put-down of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on civil rights laws and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell in his unrepentant praise of Confederate History Month still type the white South as a region that's still chock full of unreconstructed racists and religious and social bigots.”
“It was a very effective put-down, and some felt it turned the whole debate.”
“For several decades, and perhaps even now in some quarters, “Vas you dere, Charlie?” was a quick put-down for any skeptic in any situation.”
“My generation's first exposure to Agnes Moorehead wasn't her work for Orson Welles, but when she was well into her 60s and perfecting the waspish put-down of her daughter's attempts at domesticity on a weekly basis in Bewitched.”
“I was just having language games with him and he is no fool so that was not a put-down.”
“Sir Alex Ferguson opted for a more subtle form of put-down, with a different target in mind.”
The Guardian: David de Gea shrugs off his dodgy mantle to rise above the occasion
“I've always thought of it as a sort of subtle put-down of native peoples, their languages, and their culture in general.”
Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . .
“The rift with the rest of the ECB's council deepened in September when, in an interview with Bloomberg, Mr. Weber pre-empted the policy decisions of the council's next meeting, something that provoked a memorable put-down from the normally imperturbable Mr. Trichet.”
“Andrew G. Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, didn't care for Berry's put-down of studies that overlook differences in federal and private sector workers.”
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