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Changeling Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

can't grasp the meaning

Hi everybody!

I met the phrase “profit of doom”. Actually it was in the title of some business article. When I googled it, I saw lots of entries but I still can’t grasp the meaning. Could you, please, explain the meaning of it?

Thanks in advance
  

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It's a pun of some sort, a play on words. Prophet of doom is a prophet who foretells some future disaster. Profit has nearly the same pronunciation.

— Old Man Gordon

  • It's a pun of some sort, a play on words.
  • Prophet of doom is a prophet who foretells some future disaster.
  • Profit has nearly the same pronunciation.
  • Profit of doom might be a profit which foretells, predicts, or shows some future (or present) disaster.
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It's a pun of some sort, a play on words.

Prophet of doom is a prophet who foretells some future disaster.

Profit has nearly the same pronunciation.

Profit of doom might be a profit which foretells, predicts, or shows some future (or present) disaster.
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