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The Gish gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, with no regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available.
While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
a person employed to oversee the cleaning and security of a public building, e.g. a school. a person employed to oversee the cleaning and security of a building (UK: caretaker, especially for private residences; for schools etc. janitor is also used in the UK) jelly a fruit flavoured dessert set with gelatin (US: Jell-O (trademark))
Kamala Harris. Donald Trump. Gish Gallop. All three are expected at Tuesday's presidential debate, even if most of America is unfamiliar with one name in that lineup.
According to Pew Research, 3 in 5 users have taken a break from the platform as of March 2023, and Black users were especially more likely to take a break versus their white counterparts, taking a ...
Armando Gallop (1970-1996), American house-music producer and DJ; Cindy Gallop (born 1960), English CEO and advertising executive; Clive Gallop (1892-1960), British engineer, racing driver, and military pilot; Dave Gallop (born 1937), New Zealand cricketer and administrator; David Gallop (born 1965), Australian sports administrator and lawyer
Mandy Moore is calling on Amazon to "do better" after a delivery driver working on behalf of the company allegedly left a package on the front steps of her in-laws' burnt-out residence in the Los ...
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.