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In lieu of revealing my checkered past, let me just say this; When torturing a prisoner in the Viet Nam era, this meant to put out their eyes. Also, and quite a bit less disgusting, in boxing lingo it occurs when the eyes swell shut. Both the Three Stooges and W. C. Fields used this expression and it was a favorite of Groucho Marx.
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I think of the word "defenestration" every time I see a certain beer ad on TV. The guy suggests they stop buying that beer for their business meetings and gets thrown out the window as a result.
By the way, my first name fits this week's theme (words with three letters in alphabetic sequence).
Stuart Showalter
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I have seen the term used for replacing a microsoft operating system with an alternative like linux.
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replacing a microsoft operating system
Thats kinda like throwing out the Windows.
I like that one.
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In lieu of revealing my checkered past, let me just say this; When torturing a prisoner in the Viet Nam era, this meant to put out their eyes. Also, and quite a bit less disgusting, in boxing lingo it occurs when the eyes swell shut. Both the Three Stooges and W. C. Fields used this expression and it was a favorite of Groucho Marx. I've never heard that before (calling it defenestration, that is), and find it difficult to credit. can you (or anyone else) provide evidence for this? - joe (doubting) fridayedit - (note to self: wwftd fodder) excecate - to blind physically or mentally [ obs.] hence, excecation also, abacinate, occaecate, oversile [all obs. and/or rare]
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In lieu of revealing my checkered past, Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by "in lieu of" here?
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Why would you doubt lissyj 's word even if you have not read it somewhere. It's the kind of cynism you can expect with such atrocious methods. I doubt faldage not to know that in lieu of means in stead of.
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>Why would you doubt lissyj 's word even if you have not read it somewhere.
I *think I said I found it "difficult to credit", and I'm just hoping to see a citation or three. that's no more than I seek for any of the words I post!
-joe (not to claim that I'm always successful) friday
(also, there doesn't seem to be any etymological connection)
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I doubt faldage not to know that in lieu of means in stead of.
In lieu of revealing my checkered past
'Instead' of revealing my checkered past becomes confusing. Hence the curiosity. I wondered myself.
Sorry lissyj, not meaning to be critical, more, intrigued that perhaps you were going to reveal something.
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