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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This doesn’t seem to be restricted to automotive puns; I’ve seen several instances of people using it seriously. I’d chalk it up to a homonym, except for the connotation that the author wants the other person to stop, back up, hang on a moment.
Examples:
http://www.zdnet.com/5208-10532-0.html? … 8&start=48 – “Pearl Harbor? Give me a brake !!!”
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/post65249-3.html – “Re: Java Open Source Hub”
It doesn’t take much to find more of them out there.
—Alison
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