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jawbone
verb (used with or without object)
to attempt to influence or pressure by persuasion rather than by the exertion of force or one's authority, as in urging voluntary compliance with economic guidelines.
More about jawbone
The slang use of jawbone, 鈥渢o attempt to influence or pressure by persuasion rather than by force or authority as in urging voluntary compliance with economic guidelines,鈥� originated in the U.S. Students of political history will associate it Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was a master of jawboning when he was Senate majority leader. Jawbone, a compound of jaw and bone meaning “a bone of the jaw,” entered English in the late 15th century.
how is jawbone used?
Johnson had a legendary ability to “jawbone” members of Congress into accepting his positions ….
And if we think one goes too far, we initially try to jawbone the governors into rolling them back or adjusting them.
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More about eftsoons
For some of us, our first (and only) encounter with eftsoons is in Samuel Taylor Coleridge鈥檚 Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), line 12, to be exact (if you get that far): 鈥淗old off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!鈥� Eftsoons his hand dropt he.鈥� Eftsoons (also eftsoon), a very rare word, is a compound of the archaic adverb eft 鈥渁gain, a second time鈥� and the adverb soon, expanded by the adverbial genitive -s (as in backwards and forwards). Eftsoons entered English before 1000.
how is eftsoons used?
Eftsoons he made known his wants to the churl behind the desk, who was named Gogyryan. And thus he spake: 鈥淎ny rooms?鈥�
I am of this mind with Homer, that as the snail that crept out of her shell was turned eftsoons into a toad, and thereby was forced to make a stool to sit on disdaining her own house, so the traveller that straggleth from his own country is in short time transformed into so monstrous a shape that he is fain to alter his mansion with his manners, and to live where he can, not where he would.
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indemnity
noun
compensation for damage or loss sustained.
More about indemnity
Indemnity comes from Middle French 颈苍诲别尘苍颈迟茅, from Late Latin 颈苍诲别尘苍颈迟腻蝉 (inflectional stem 颈苍诲别尘苍颈迟腻迟-) 鈥渟ecurity from financial loss.鈥澛� 滨苍诲别尘苍颈迟腻蝉 is first recorded in the writings of the Imperial Roman jurists Sextus Pomponius and Ulpian. The root word of 颈苍诲别尘苍颈迟腻蝉 is the noun damnum 鈥渇inancial loss, deprivation of possessions or property, a sum to be paid in restitution.鈥� Damnum comes from an unrecorded dapnom, a noun derivative of the extended root dap-, from the Proto-Indo-European root 诲腻– 鈥渢o apportion in exchange.鈥� The same root yields Latin daps 鈥渟acrificial meal, banquet,鈥� Old Norse tafn 鈥渟acrificial animal, meal鈥� (also from dapnom), Greek 诲补辫谩苍脓 鈥渃ost, expenditure鈥� and 诲谩辫迟别颈苍 鈥渢o devour, consume,鈥� Sanskrit 诲腻payate 鈥渉e divides,鈥� and Armenian tawn 鈥渇east鈥� (from dapni-). Indemnity entered English in the 15th century.
how is indemnity used?
I promise you indemnity for your loss, and an apology that shall, I trust, satisfy your feelings ….
On his arrival, as an indemnity for alleged insults offered to the flag of his country, he demanded some twenty or thirty thousand dollars to be placed in his hands forthwith ….
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