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OP Today's New York Times used the term bully pulpit in a headline:
Schwarzenegger's Bully Pulpit: Muscle Magazines
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Merriam-Webster defines bully pulpit as a prominent public position (as a political office) that provides an opportunity for expounding one's views; also: such an opportunity.
But what is the origin of the term?
Not "bully boy", but perhaps "bully for you!" is a relative.
Encarta bully boy
noun [C] INFORMAL
a rough and threatening man, especially one paid by someone to hurt or frighten other people: bully-boy tactics
Cambridge "bully for you!
used to express approval (dated) used ironically"
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