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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Make sense. Scares the bad people away from attacking your computers (of the fire from affecting other compartments of a vehicle or other object that has a wall against said fire.)
Same know-it-all customer. “I guess the fear-wall failed and we got a virus.”
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Welcome to the forum, mathx.
I like this one a lot, but I wasn’t able to find a clear instance of “fear wall” for “firewall” on the Web in a couple of quick googlings. Maybe this is the kind of thing people say in speech, but don’t commit to print often. Or maybe I just haven’t looked through enough pages of hits yet.
Paging through the results did lead me to an idiomatic use of “fear wall” I’d never seen before. People talking getting through or over “the fear wall of public speaking,” etc.
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I have to agree with Pat. Although it seems plausible that someone might re-imagine a fire wall as protection from fear rather than metaphorical fire, I can’t find any additional examples.
A Google search for {“fear wall” protection} returns 180 results, but most of those are references to Wall Street or the Wall Street Journal, to Dungeons and Dragons or World of Warcraft-style magic games, or to the idiom Pat found. There are also a number of misspellings (or misreadings via Google Book Search) of rear wall.
It means markets can never be allowed to drop for fear Wall Street firms’ profits will shrink.
http://www.safehaven.com/article-6831.htm
Spell abilities: fear, wall of thorns, summon earth elemental
http://crossfire.real-time.com/spoiler/ … _to_h.html
one of the ways I would “breach the fear wall” between myself and wild U2’s is to gently hold them
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post … id=1311044
The wall of the cylinder is hotter than the fear wall, and this again is hotter than the front wall
http://books.google.com/books?id=-oosAA … eW7s&hl=en
A Lexis Nexis search for “fear wall” returns 1,094 articles, but when I remove those that refer to Wall Street, that number drops – to zero.
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