Word: foolish
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Good onya: A tough idiom for the novice to master. Can be used as a genuine congratulatory expression, but is also occasionally used in a snide or sarcastic way in response to someone or something particularly foolish or irritating, abbreviated with a “yeah” (You spilled red wine all over my white shirt? Yeah, good onya, mate...
...week's events illuminate a fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans on domestic policy. The Democrats are boxed into complicated and unpopular positions because they tend to stand on principle--although the principles involved are often antiquated, peripheral and, arguably, foolish. The Republicans, by contrast, have abandoned traditional conservatism to gain political advantage (with the elderly, for instance) or to pay off their stable of corporate-welfare recipients. The Medicare bill contains large gifts to pharmaceutical manufacturers; the energy bill is a $23.5 billion bequest to traditional-energy producers, with additional billions worth of free-range pork tossed in. "This...
...said neither YPD or NHPD had contacted him. Lee added it would have been foolish to plant a device that so obviously pointed to the band...
...America selectively flouts the WTO rulings with which it happens to disagree, it will seriously undermine the free trade rules the intergovernmental institution has assiduously forged over the years. Moreover, disrespecting international institutions and rejecting policies that mutually benefit America and other countries is an especially foolish move at this time, given the resentment American unilateralism has recently engendered...
...helped him," Chaussoy told Time last week. "I eased his pain, physical and emotional." The local prosecutor says these injections killed Vincent, and doctors are forbidden from deliberately provoking death under the French code of medical ethics. But the code also requires doctors to ease patients' suffering and avoid "foolish obstinacy" in treatment. Chaussoy's supporters say the shots are a customary, humane response to a patient in pain. Chaussoy did not mention the injections in his public statements after Vincent's death. And he confirms that if he'd done nothing, Vincent would have likely emerged from his coma...