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#1 2021-05-16 15:15:12

DavidTuggy
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roundabout < turnaround

Fox News headline and article:

Fauci defends CDC’s roundabout on mask mandates amid confusion from new guidance […] the agency drew a sharp rebuke for its roundabout on the matter of face coverings; less than two months ago, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky warned of “impending doom” as COVID-19 cases began to rise again.

Nearly the same wording appeared again the next day ―the phase had been edited but this lexical choice was not changed in the process:

The CDC drew a sharp rebuke for its roundabout on the matter of face coverings; less than two months ago, Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky warned of “impending doom” as COVID-19 cases began to rise again.

Certainly looks to me like a (malapropistically motivated) blend (of a surprising and ∴ interesting type) of turnaround and turnabout and perhaps about face . Of course, a roundabout can be a good place to turn around, when you’re driving, much like a turnaround can be.
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There are other examples:

He did a quick roundabout to see if anyone was there with him, but saw no one. Was he just hearing things maybe? “Hello?” He asked

She did a quick roundabout. She flipped forward, and pushed off hard when her hand touched the ground.

Two Japanese planes targeted the Pyro and strafed her with bullets; one did a roundabout and flew low over the ship, dropping a bomb.

Jana did a quick roundabout and saying “sorry” and after two seconds of shock, I felt myself running after my friend

Others mean something more circuitous:

Lamar showed up this afternoon at the Spadina Avenue store and did a quick roundabout of handshakes.

We did a quick roundabout to see some of the flea market, caught a brief tango performance in the square – which was great – and then headed to the Abasto …

Is there a way in my builder to toggle serializeFields or do I have to do a roundabout way where I define some values in a static class

The use of roundaboutation to mean avoidance of giving a straight answer, usually with some degree of intent to deceive, may be active in the first quoted set of examples. This and these ( a & b ) are also at least tangentially relevant.

Last edited by DavidTuggy (2021-05-17 14:46:29)


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