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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Don’t you just love “executive defenestration”!


567 posted on 12/19/2013 8:09:43 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: reg45

“defenestration” is from the Latin ‘fenestra’ “window”.

These days, most of the time the expression is “throwing someone under the bus.” Since there were no buses in ancient Rome, a good substitution would be ‘currus’ “chariot”, and “under the chariot” would be ‘in curru’.

So, throwing someone under the bus would be “incurrustration”, a modern word for the Latin “coniectis in sinum currus.”


579 posted on 12/19/2013 8:41:34 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Last Obamacare Promise: "If You Like Your Eternal Soul, You Can Keep It.")
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