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#1 2008-07-28 11:30:02

DavidTuggy
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on thin ground

(Yeah, I know, I wasn’t going to do this. Still, how can you resist when:)

Sen. Chuck Hagel pronounced on Face the Nation that McCain “is treading on some very thin ground,” and warned against a campaign based on “‘You’re less patriotic than me.’”

If you refer to the ISO standardized language, you are on thin ground, since it has little to say that is meaningful in this area.

Foucault is on thin ground here, however, and this paradox — the paradox of the transgression of transgression, the limit of the limit,

Here we are on thin ground because we are trying to apply modern science to ancient religious custom and belief.

It sounds weird for an anarchist to point this out, but the Bush adminstration is skating on thin ground when it comes to legitimacy.

About 2.4K ghits. A good many “skating on thin ground” hits seem to be reporting it as a blooper.

Is “thin ground” the opposite of “solid ground”? (What would the rest of you say? “Shaky ground”?)

Related:

I’m too edgy to be walking on such thin waters.

[they] are trading on thin ice, moving delicately.

Last edited by DavidTuggy (2008-07-28 14:37:17)


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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