flatten the curve
entymological excerpts
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flatten (v.)
late 14c., “to prostrate oneself,” also “to fall flat,” from flat (adj.) + -en (1). Transitive meaning “to make flat” is 1620s. Related: Flattened; flattening.
curve (n.)
1690s, “curved line, a continuous bending without angles,” from curve (v.). With reference to the female figure (usually plural, curves), from 1862; in reference to statistical graphs, by 1854; as a type of baseball pitch that does not move in a straight line, from 1879. An old name for it was slow. “Slows are balls simply tossed to the bat with a line of delivery so curved as to make them almost drop on the home base.” [Chadwick’s Base Ball Manual, 1874]
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flatten the curve
flatten - make flat
curve - the female figure
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