Tag: go nuclear
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Does not compute
Wednesday Email: Does not compute Well, that was interesting! Britain now has its third prime minister in less than two months! It’s beginning to look a lot like Japan. It looks like the US is also in a period of constant leadership change. These rapid changes are occurring because, for those leaders, the reality of…
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Heads will roll
Phrase: Heads will roll There is no doubt about it. The phrase heads will roll sounds quite gruesome when you think about it. I become nostalgic when I hear it, though. During my childhood, when the five of us kids all got going creating castles with sofa cushions or playing wargames inside on a dreary…
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Back into a corner
Idiom: Back into a corner What a difference 50 days make. On February 24th, Vladimir Putin was preparing victory parades for a puppet Ukrainian regime after running over the Ukrainian military and Zelenskyy government. He thought the Ukrainians would be quickly backed into a corner and forced to surrender. Sometimes things don’t go exactly as…
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The nature of the beast
Phrase: The nature of the beast Are you thinking about how to be happy? I bet you are thinking about it now because I’ve asked you. Here’s a little secret. If you want to be happy, you have to learn to accept things. Life is full of stuff that we don’t like, that gets on our…
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Go nuclear
Idiom: Go nuclear While at first blush, the idea of going nuclear may be an extremely delicate topic for some Japanese, the term itself is more of a euphemism for extremism. If you go nuclear, you become outraged and use force to the full extent of being extreme and perhaps in an irrational way. Imagine…
