undue, Take a Bath in a Bruising Year, limp, Take a Beating

'Baltimore Sun' probe exposes 'disturbing pattern' of police brutality in the city. http://n.pr/1Ak4gKG

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 Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Overheard: Greek Canyon

The temptation for an investor who finds a bond yielding more than 100% might be to shout Eureka!

But, as Greek bonds took yet another bath yesterday, they started losing touch with reality. On Wednesday alone, the yield on Greece's 4.3% bond due March 2012 rose 30 percentage points, according to Tradeweb.

Sterling Takes a Beating

While currency experts focus on the plight of the dollar, it is clear the outlook for the British pound could be just as bad, if not worse.

As Obama Enters History Books, Bush Presidency Limps Out

Barack Obama is now the 44th president of the United States, the first
African-American to hold the office. George W. Bush leaves Washington with
a record that is mixed at best, and what many call a failed presidency.

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Markets Limp Into 2009 After a Bruising Year
By VIKAS BAJAJ

On Wall Street, about $7 trillion of shareholders’ wealth — the gains of the last six years — was wiped out in 2008.

Definition of undue in English:

adjective

Unwarranted or inappropriate because excessive ordisproportionate:this figure did not give rise to undue concern

limp

limp (PERSON/ANIMAL) Show phonetics
verb [I]
to walk unevenly and slowly because of having an injured or painful leg or foot:
Three minutes into the match, Jackson limped off the pitch with a serious ankle injury.

limp Show phonetics
noun [S]
She has a slight limp.
He walks with a limp.

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limp (PROCESS) Show phonetics
verb [I + adverb or preposition] INFORMAL
to develop or grow slowly, unevenly or irregularly:
After limping along for almost two years, the economy is starting to show signs of recovery.

Take a Bath, Take a Beating

To suffer a large loss on a product, Speculation, or investment, as in ‘I took a bath on my XYZ stock when the market dropped last week.'

[名]（複〜s 〔bǽðz, bǽθs | bðz〕）

1 入浴；水浴び；日光浴

take ［((英))have］ a bath
入浴する（▼The baby's taking a bath. とすると赤ん坊がひとりで入浴している感じになる）

run a quick bath
さっとひと浴びする

give a person a bath
人をふろに入れる.

2 浴槽, 湯ぶね（▼((米))では通例bathtub）；浴室, ふろ場. ⇒BATHROOM

a single room with a private bath
専用浴室つき1人部屋

run a bath
浴槽に湯［水］を入れる；入浴する, シャワーを浴びる.

3 ((しばしば〜sで単数扱い))
(1) （しばしばプールつきの）浴場, ふろ屋(bathhouse)；((英古風))プール(swimming bath)

public baths
公衆浴場

Turkish bath
（トルコ風の）蒸しぶろ屋.

(2) （特に古代ローマの）大浴場(communal bath).

4 ((通例〜s))湯治場, 温泉地(spa).

5 [U]溶液, 処理液, 調合液；[C]（溶液などの）容器

a fixing bath
（写真の）定着液.

6 《工学》…浴：砂・水・油などを媒体とする温度調節装置.

7 《冶金》炉底；鋼浴.

8 びしょぬれ

in a bath of perspiration ［sweat］
びっしょり汗をかいて.

take a bath

(1) ⇒[名]1
(2) ((米略式))破産する；（…で）大損する((on, in ...)).

━━[動]((主に英))(他)〈赤ん坊・病人などを〉入浴させる（((米))bathe）.

━━(自)入浴する.

Definition of sterling in English:

noun

[MASS NOUN]

1British money:prices in sterling are shown[AS MODIFIER]: issues of sterling bonds

2short for sterling silver.[AS MODIFIER]: a sterling spoon

adjective

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(Of a person or their work or qualities) excellent orvaluable:this organization does sterling work for youngsters

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Origin

Middle English: probably from steorra 'star' + -ling(because some early Norman pennies bore a small star). Until recently one popular theory was that the coin was originally made by Easterling moneyers (from the ‘eastern’ Hanse towns), but the stressed first syllable would not have been dropped.