Find out what all those different colored jerseys mean.
By ALEX CREVAR
The eighth district has become a magnet for trendy bohemians, mixing soulful chic and shabby bourgeois.
This article is adapted from “The Economist Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus”, by Tim Hindle (Profile Books; 322 pages; £20). The guide has the low-down on over 100 of the most influential business-management ideas and more than 50 of the world’s most influential management thinkers. To buy this book, please visit our
More management gurus
This profile is adapted from “The Economist Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus”, by Tim Hindle (Profile Books; 322 pages; £20). The guide has the low-down on more than 50 of the world’s most influential management thinkers past and present and over 100 of the most influential business-management ideas.Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown.
Keep it on the down low,
lowdown
or low·down (lō'doun')
adj.
- Despicable; base: a low-down coward.
- Gloomy; depressed.
- Earthy; funky: a low-down blues; the low-down sound of a clarinet.
(the low-down)
WordNet: low-down
Meaning #1: slang terms for inside information
Synonyms: dope, poop, the skinny
The adjective low-down has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: of the most contemptible kind
Synonyms: abject, low, miserable, scummy, scurvy
That was a pretty low-down thing to do.Meaning #2: (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues
Synonym: funky
| lowlife | (noun) A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible. |
| Synonyms: | dirty dog, git, puke, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, bum, crumb, rat |
| Usage: | Only a lowlife would steal money from his own child. |
soulful
adj.
Full of or expressing deep feeling; profoundly emotional.
[形]感情［魂］のこもった, 情熱的な；感動的な.
soulfully soul'ful·ly adv.
soulfulness soul'ful·ness n.
沒有留言:
張貼留言