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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary
Out-Trumped
Indeed, Kelly may have thought he was expressing the president’s thoughts on Tuesday when he claimed that some immigrants are “too lazy to get off their asses” to register for government protections. But it was the kind of language that out-Trumped Trump himself. (The Guardian .)
Is "out-Trumped" a transitive, finite verb in the passage above? Is "out-Trumped" a neologism?
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tkacka15 Is "out-Trumped" a transitive, finite verb in the passage above? Yes. tkacka15 Is "out-Trumped" a neologism?
- tkacka15 Is "out-Trumped" a transitive, finite verb in the passage above?
- Yes.
- tkacka15 Is "out-Trumped" a neologism?
- In a way.
- The free idiom is to 'out-X X' = to be more extremely X than X himself/herself.
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tkacka15Is "out-Trumped" a transitive, finite verb in the passage above?
Yes.
tkacka15Is "out-Trumped" a neologism?
In a way. The free idiom is to 'out-X X' = to be more extremely X than X himself/herself.
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