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Doanxuanquy Posted 8 years ago
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A frenzy of special pleading and spluttered threats

What does the phrase above mean?

"PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has not yet started a global trade war. But he has started a frenzy of special pleading and spluttered threats"

Source: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/03/15/a-lose-lose-trade-war-looms-between-america-and-china

  

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frenzy : A state of wild activity or panic. org/wiki/special_pleading splutter : To speak hurriedly and confusedly. org/wiki/splutter

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  • frenzy : A state of wild activity or panic.
  • org/wiki/special_pleading splutter : To speak hurriedly and confusedly.
  • org/wiki/splutter
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frenzy: A state of wild activity or panic.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frenzy

special pleading: Arguing that a particular case is an exception to a generally accepted rule, without justification or without a relevant basis

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