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Chris -- 2018-04-11
‘Damp squid’ is already in the database, but I felt this double-yolker variant was worth noting for its clear sense of disapproval if nothing else.
Sorry to put a damn squid on things fellas…
To be fair, the first iPhone was a bit of a damn squid.
I was starting to get the feeling that IE 7 was going to be a damn squid…
The Beaus may have been a bit of a damn squid but all hail The Alychamps who are the other end of the spectrum, stunning.
Argos ended up being a damn squid and refused to sell it after their initial bugger up.
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Hilarious! Automatic winner of best of the year I think.
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For us ignorami, a damp squib is? A wet firecracker, I suppose? (I don’t remember ever hearing or seeing the phrase.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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DavidTuggy wrote:
For us ignorami, a damp squib is? A wet firecracker, I suppose? (I don’t remember ever hearing or seeing the phrase.)
Correct. Meaning something that is a “dud”, or unable to perform its intended purpose.
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Housekeeping.
BP Gulf spill
commentators universally agree that his much lauded White House Address, convened after 5-6 spurting visits to the Oil Spillage Zone, was more of a damn squib than a call to arm.
Political forum
2010 might be one of those pivotal years the analysts will refer to for years to come. Then again it could all be a rather damn squib with only the politicos getting excited.
Response: That would be a damp squib, not a “damn†squib, which makes no sense at all.
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