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Dark Fury Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
To short-stroking it all over the place
From the movie Terminator 1984.
There were several murders, and one police officer to another: "The press is gonna be short-stroking it all over the place." Is it an allusion to gentle rubbing, hard hitting, or maybe something else?
There were several murders, and one police officer to another: "The press is gonna be short-stroking it all over the place." Is it an allusion to gentle rubbing, hard hitting, or maybe something else?
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" Is it an allusion to gentle rubbing, hard hitting, or maybe something else? I suspect that it is a golf phrase. Short strokes on the golf course means many strokes, and here 'strokes' would refer to press stories—so, there will be many news stories in the press.
- " Is it an allusion to gentle rubbing, hard hitting, or maybe something else?
- I suspect that it is a golf phrase.
- Short strokes on the golf course means many strokes, and here 'strokes' would refer to press stories—so, there will be many news stories in the press.
- Or, a short stroke in golf is does not reach the hole (the goal), so the press stories may be 'short of the mark': incomplete, conjectural, full of rumours.
- But I'm just guessing; it is not a common idiom, I think.
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Dark Fury"The press is gonna be short-stroking it all over the place." Is it an allusion to gentle rubbing, hard hitting, or maybe something else?I suspect that it is a golf phrase. Short strokes on the golf course means many strokes, and here 'strokes' would refer to press stories—so, there will be many news stories in the press.
Or, a short stroke
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