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Yogi2005 Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Gum-shifting performance

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0 Well, I would guess that it's a performance so exciting, that the spectators move their chewing gum from one side of their mouths to the other. 02br 02br 00As you can imagine, it's intended to be a slightly humorous phrase. 02br 02br 00MrP 0-

— MrPedantic

  • 0 Well, I would guess that it's a performance so exciting, that the spectators move their chewing gum from one side of their mouths to the other.
  • 02br 02br 00As you can imagine, it's intended to be a slightly humorous phrase.
  • 02br 02br 00MrP 0-
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0 Well, I would guess that it's a performance so exciting, that the spectators move their chewing gum from one side of their mouths to the other. 02br
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00As you can imagine, it's intended to be a slightly humorous phrase. 02br
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0 Could it also be a play on "uplifting" performance? 0-
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0 Yes, that's true! 02br
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00What's the context, Yogi? The only google seems to be "he's putting on the entire cowlicked, gum-shifting country boy performance", which means 'he's pretending to be a country boy, slowly moving his chewing gum from side to side (of his mouth)'. 02br
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0 Where did you get this thing from? I scanned the entire Net and came across only one mention of this phrase, and that too on a chinese web site. 0-
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0 MrP, 02br
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00I took it from a student's book and th context is almost the same as yours. 02br
00Sorry for not being precise. 02br
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0 I think it is a great phrase! 0-
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