Word: putdown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...we’re all here for the better / In the music you might discover / And your pulse and your beat and your laugh.” The second track, “My Love is Better,” steps up the pace and the attitude; a catty putdown to a romantic competitor set to powerful, pulsating synths. “My kiss is wetter (Than your kiss) / My lips are better (Than your tricks) / You know you never (Had my hips) / I’m so much better (So eat this),” she sneers?...
...That's the most famous putdown in debate history," Schroeder says. "There's an example of bad preparation...
...Sunnis worship God; Shi'ites worship God - and the imams," says Tareq Sammaree, offering a bumper-sticker putdown of the Shi'ite devotion to their pious human heroes, Ali and Hussein. The 58-year-old Sunni is a former professor at Baghdad University and a long-time Ba'ath Party member; he is not particularly fond of his Shi'ite countrymen. He claims he and his son were kidnapped by a Shi'ite militia and tortured for over a year at the Jadiriya prison in Baghdad, and that he does not know the fate...