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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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Crunch creep

Hello everybody!

What does "Crunch Creep" exactly mean?

As for "Crunch", is it something like "Credit Crunch"?
What's the meaning of "creep" in this context?

There is a picture as well (a piggy bank):


Thanks in advance!

Reference:

Crunch creep

Strange, tangential and often unlikely events laid at the door of the credit crunch.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/crunch_creep/
  

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The credit crunch is slowly creeping up on society. [creep = move slowly and quietly]

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  • The credit crunch is slowly creeping up on society.
  • [creep = move slowly and quietly]
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The credit crunch is slowly creeping up on society. [creep = move slowly and quietly]
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Anonymous Strange, tangential and often unlikely events laid at the door of the credit crunch.
The credit crunch is on the popular mind, so people start blaming it for things which are only very remotely connected to it. This gives the "crunch" the appearance of creeping forward in its influence on our lives, to a greater extent than is
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The term 'creep' is used a lot in the British press to refer to the way in which certain phenomena are becoming more common or starting earlier than usual.

For example: 'season creep' is used to refer to the way that the seasons in the UK are beginning earlier, thanks to global warming and 'Christmas creep' is used to refer to the fact that shops stock Christmas products even earlier ev
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