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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Game review
The game is also a bit low on the challege side of things. The only things in this game that will even remotely threaten you are the occasional heat-sinking missile and slow drivers.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1SUVE7YW3NW26
ABC News transcription
There’s a wonderful expression that a strategic facilitator I worked with years ago gave me that I love, which is ‘When you’re in a meeting and someone comes up with a new idea, don’t send a heat-sinking missile’, and what that means is, you know what the easiest thing to do is?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/campuschatter/ … dents.html
Golf article
The occasional heat-sinking missile off a driver can find the front of the green, and that’s what Buell tried to pull off on Sunday, but he overcooked it left.
http://www.amateurgolf.com/articleview.asp?id=840
I know what a heat sink is, and I know what a heat-seeking missile is, but I’m pretty sure there’s no such thing as a heat-sinking missile.
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Great blend, Golbez. It is probably no coincidence that “sinking” is present in the circumstances of the examples: torpedoing an idea, sinking a golf shot.
There is also the heatsicking missile. Maybe a misspelling, or an etymological variant of seek, viz. “sick ‘m, Fido”.
News forum
confusuis would say you are a wise child.
However putting the Gipper on the first tier list that Is by default. Only thing I truly respected about that cat was his gangsterism,he was not afraid to put a heatsicking missile in Kadhafi’s tent.
(http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/ … n-Republic)
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Blending with the standard collocation “heat sink†is likely going on. I also have documented:
It [a golf ball] came at me like a heat stinking missle
Also “stinking ship†was at least once used for “sinking shipâ€.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I can imagine being so mizzled by the miss in missile that the notion of arriving at one particular place needs to be made absolutely clear:
The Navy may have to wait another day before launching a hit-seeking missile to shoot down a spy satellite. The Pentagon says weather may be a key factor as …
bbs.putclub.com/index.php?showtopic=132540
This is the only hit seeking missile that can make a 90 degrees turn, so in theory a plane can launch it even when the enemy plane is to his …
blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=16867
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The funniest of these permutations is “heat sicking missile.” But it’s too rare to qualify as a certain eggcorn. “Hit seeking,” however, has a couple of dozen exemplars, and is, to my taste, the best eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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