Leonsis says he is certain the phrase came out of AOL in the early 1990s, where he and company founder Steve Case were developing what would become AOL Instant Messenger.
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"Some people have a phrase that pops out in their mind: 'If I'm in the same condition as Aunt Mary, ' " Mr. Malley says.
To repeat, the differences between Greece and Iceland are many and various, but reading the report there was one other phrase that leapt out at me.
She described how the phrase "hang out" has been around since 1811 while "chav" comes from a Romany word for child and has been used since about 1886.
Ms Grant went on to highlight the issue of low pay in the hospitality industry, pointing out the phrase "pay peanuts, get monkeys".
The phrase, which came out of the May, 2010 hours-long dumping and recovery, designated a sudden, dramatic drop followed quickly by a sudden, dramatic recovery in price.
President Obama's goal, by contrast, is not to cut any spending in the here and now, only sometime in the "out years, " to use the Washington phrase, presumably when he'll be out of office.
There is also a narcissistic delight in verbal dexterity, in dealing out the trenchant phrase.
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Markel does point out that the phrase "first, do no harm" does not appear in the Hippocratic Oath, but says the spirit of a physician's profession remains straightforward.
That's where I see a T-shirt, folded in a pile, with a brash, block-lettered phrase that is so mystifying and out-of-sync with the concerned image a nervous NFL is trying to present right now, that at first I double-take.
The phrase "US delete" leaps out at the reader, so consistently does it appear - often in company with Canada - particularly on anything relating to "common but differentiated responsibilities", the phrase that basically means rich and poor countries both have an interest in solving something but have different roles to play.
To borrow a phrase, it's getting ugly out there.
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The group is also known in longer form as Lulz Security - where "Lulz" is a play on words of the popular internet phrase "lol", meaning "laugh out loud".
The author told The Times newspaper he was prompted to officially register the phrase after seeing Chilean President Sebastian Pinera handing out copies of the message to the British Queen and prime minister during his tour of Europe.
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It turns out that the origin of the phrase is hard to ascertain (note to Wiki), but it was popularized by a short lived tv series of the same name about innovative websites and online design that attempted to merge new and old media models.
Interrupt someone explaining why they love a certain restaurant to point out a clumsy turn-of-phrase?
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Pushing money out of the door, as the phrase at the bank's headquarters has it, is vital if you want to get on.
He was turned down, but the newly formed Gramophone Company bought both the phrase and image on condition that the original phonograph was painted out and substituted with a gramophone and horn.
That vague phrase may be sharpened by a decision last month by Switzerland to phase out nuclear power, after similar decisions in Sweden, Italy and Germany.
As Sir Mervyn was at pains to emphasise, this is not a simple matter of "in or out" - or even, in David Cameron's rather undiplomatic phrase, "make-up or break-up".
Unsurprisingly, once we phrase tax policy as a collective exercise in fiscal masochism, our threshold for tax pain turns out to be very low.
What is at issue here is essentially a phrase about whether or not there was a spontaneous demonstration, which was an early assessment that turned out not to be the case.
However, unless a phrase appears repeatedly in written text, an acronym is usually more confusing to a reader than spelling it out.
From the tub, if you are Norman Lamont, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, who famously coined the phrase "green shoots", while detecting recovery from the last recession (accurately, as it turned out, despite media ridicule) and also gave us "singing in the bath" as a measure of his own equanimity under pressure.
But the kicker, the phrase that takes the article from merely bad to legendarily awful, comes when Harding tries to describe the falling out between Berezovsky and Putin.
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