hash out alter ego, rehash, pun-drunk, talk shop

Ms. Grandin’s new book, “Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals,” also written with Ms. Johnson, picks up where “Animals in Translation” left off. It has a slightly different focus: she concentrates this time on the emotional rather than the physical life of animals, although the two are clearly related.

There is a good deal of rehashing of material from her previous book, and she leans more here on the ideas of others than she did before.

By JESS WINFIELD
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER

A debut novel about William Shakespeare and his American alter ego, a hash-smoking grad student named Willie Shakespeare Greenberg.

This is life in the E-Tower at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. Babson focuses on business, and E-Tower focuses, even more tightly, on entrepreneurship. The residents of E-Tower hash out new business plans at Monday night meetings, and they talk shop throughout the day and night.

hash over

Also, hash out. Discuss carefully, review, as in Let's hash over these plans again, or The department was hashing out the new syllabus. This idiom uses the verb hash in the sense of "cut into small pieces," a usage dating from the mid-1700s.


talk shop
Converse about one's business or profession, as in Whenever John and his dad get together, they talk shop. [Mid-1800s]


Times Topics: William Shakespeare

If you read “My Name Is Will,” a lusty, pun-drunk first novel by the professional wiseacre and award-winning cartoon producer Jess Winfield (who had a hand in the above-mentioned entertainments), you will indubitably find out.

pun-drunk似乎模仿 punch drunk

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punch-drunk (TIRED) Hide phonetics
adjective
tired and confused, especially after dealing with a difficult situation
punch-drunk (INJURED) Hide phonetics
adjective
describes a boxer who behaves in a way that suggests his brain has been damaged as a result of being hit repeatedly on the head

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alter ego noun [C] plural alter egos
the side of someone's personality which is not usually seen by other people:
Clark Kent is Superman's alter ego.

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hash (DRUGS) Hide phonetics
noun [U]
INFORMAL FOR hashish

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hash (FOOD) Show phonetics
noun [U]
a mixture of meat, potatoes and vegetables cut into small pieces and baked or fried:
corned beef hash
US eggs and hash

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hash sth up phrasal verb [M] UK INFORMAL
to spoil something by doing it badly:
The first interview was all right but I rather think I hashed up the second one.

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rehash Show phonetics
noun [C] INFORMAL DISAPPROVING
writing or speech that uses old ideas as if they were new:
His new book is just a rehash (of his previous ones).

rehash Show phonetics
verb [T] INFORMAL DISAPPROVING
Some students merely rehash what they've heard in lectures.