Comments on: Latest Clichés: Skin and Haircuts http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=269 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: Stargzer http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=269&cpage=1#comment-127803 Stargzer Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:42:51 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=269#comment-127803 "Let’s try “give/get a haircut”, as to give GM employees or AIG managers a haircut. Well, that isn’t a graphic image of an injury but then it doesn’t really imply a contribution to the cost of resurrecting our economic institutions." Getting a haircut is having your locks shorn, and shearing a sheep is taking its fleece, so I think "fleeced" might be an appropriate description of our plight as taxpayers and investors. “Let’s try “give/get a haircut”, as to give GM employees or AIG managers a haircut. Well, that isn’t a graphic image of an injury but then it doesn’t really imply a contribution to the cost of resurrecting our economic institutions.”

Getting a haircut is having your locks shorn, and shearing a sheep is taking its fleece, so I think “fleeced” might be an appropriate description of our plight as taxpayers and investors.

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