It's not a turn of phrase I'm much familiar with outside of that context, and not a good thing to be devising variants of Godwin's Law.
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These sentiments are tied to the concept of the " brass ceiling ", a turn of phrase meant to describe the limited opportunities for advancement for females in the police force and military.
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It is shorthand for " boy ", ( and is a turn of phrase particularly pronounced with the Waterford dialect of Hiberno-Irish ) but is used variably to address members of either sex.
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Robert Studer, head of the powerful Swiss Union Bank, recently described the amounts which continue to languish in Swiss bank vaults as " peanuts " _ a turn of phrase that incensed many critics.
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Hague said, " To borrow a turn of phrase, we were led by Disraeli, our predecessors knew Disraeli, Disraeli was a Conservative through and through, and, Ed Miliband, you are no Disraeli ."
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In this latter form it found fame in New Zealand in 1956 through rugby player Peter Jones, who in a live post-match radio interview-declared himself " absolutely buggered ", a turn of phrase considered shocking at the time.
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After quoting a few of the song's lines Orwell refers to the era as a time when " people had not yet settled down to a lifetime of unemployment mitigated by endless cups of tea, " a turn of phrase which the later writer Larry Portis contests.
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It wound up on President Bill Clinton's desk in the Oval Office, a few years after a turn of phrase attributed to Chace, " America, the indispensable nation, " became a mantra among the Clinton administration's advocates of intervention in places like Bosnia.
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As Davies realized, " before August, it would have read'the $ 64, 000 question "'--a turn of phrase born of a game show nearly 50 years ago, updated only now, thanks to " Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ."
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In reactions to question if it was correct that Karzai had stated that if foreign pressure on him continues, Karzai could ally himself with the Taliban, Ludin dismissed this but added : " Even if he said something like that, it would be just a turn of phrase.
