“OH MY God, what have we done?” is one of the memorable lines from the HBO docudrama, “Game Change”, as John McCain’s presidential campaign team comes to see at last that it should have spent rather more time vetting Sarah Palin, the then governor of Alaska, before picking her as the senator’s presidential running-mate in 2008. Now that he has more or less tidied away his own nomination, the methodical Mitt Romney is not likely to make a similar mistake. But even for methodical candidates, choosing a running-mate is anything but simple.
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Vetting
is the process of performing a background check on someone before
offering them employment, conferring an award, etc. A prospective person
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Advances in bio-enhancers and technology could make steroids seem quaint.
brainiac - definition of brainiac by the Free Online Dictionary ...
A highly intelligent person: "These companies are not hot Silicon Valley startups swarming with Gen-X brainiacs" (Ronald Henkoff).
Spruce-up
Meaning
To make smart and trim.
Origin
Spruce-up
is just a little phrase, but it has taken quite a journey to get to us
in its present state. The state it started from was Prussia. The 14th
century word spruce is a variant of Pruce, which was itself a shortened version of Prussia.
Originally, things that were spruce were those items brought from
Prussia. For example, spruce fir trees and, more to the point for this
phrase, spruce leather.
From the end of the 16th century, spruce was used as a verb meaning 'to make trim and neat'. In The terrors of the night, or, a discourse of apparitions, 1594, Thomas Nashe equates 'sprucing' with 'cleaning':
[You shall] spend a whole twelue month in spunging & sprucing.
A
jerkin made from the expensive imported spruce leather was the fashion
accessory of choice for Tudor and Stuart noblemen. Robert Greene, in A Quip for an Upstart Courtier - a quaint dispute between Cloth-breeches and Velvet-breeches, 1592, paints a picture of the dandy of the day:"A fellow briskly apparelled, in a blacke taffata doublet, and a spruce leather jerkin with christall buttons."
'Spruce'
moved from being an adjective, describing leather and other goods from
Prussia, to a verb, meaning 'make smart and neat'.
The first mention of 'sprucing-up' comes in Sir George Etherege's Restoration drama The Man of Mode, 1676:
"I took particular notice of one that is alwaies spruc'd up with a deal of dirty Sky-colur'd Ribband."
In
20th century America, the term 'spruce-up' took on a new lease of
life, with a slightly modified meaning. It began to be used there to
mean 'tidy-up; refurbish' - a counterpart to the English 'Spring-clean'.
Up until then 'sprucing-up' had been reserved for people and their
clothes.
Many
of the early references to sprucing up refer to adding ribbons to
clothing but it seems that, to really spruce yourself up, you need a
(preferably German) leather jacket.
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outspend
- òut • spénd
- outspendの変化形
- outspent (過去形) • outspent (過去分詞) • outspending (現在分詞) • outspends (三人称単数現在)
quaint
- 音節
- quaint
- 発音
- kwéint
- レベル
- 社会人必須
[形]（〜・er, 〜・est）
3 巧みに作られた.
［古フランス語←ラテン語cognitus （cognōscere知る＋-tus過去分詞語尾＝知られた）. △COGNISANCE, ACQUAINT］
quaint・ly
[副]
quaint・ness
[名]quaint
/kwānt/
Adjective
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Synonyms
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spruce2 (sprūs)
adj., spruc·er, spruc·est.
Neat, trim, and smart in appearance: “a good-looking man; spruce and dapper, and very tidy” (Anthony Trollope).
v., spruced, spruc·ing, spruc·es. v.tr.
To make neat and trim: spruced up the chairs with new slipcovers.
v.intr.
To make oneself neat and smart in appearance: He was sprucing for the school dance.
tidy
(tī'dē)
adj., -di·er, -di·est.
- Orderly and neat in appearance or procedure. See synonyms at neat1.
- Informal. Adequate; satisfactory: a tidy arrangement.
- Informal. Substantial; considerable: a tidy sum.
v., -died, -dy·ing, -dies. v.tr.
To put in order: tidied up the house.
v.intr.
To make things tidy: tidied up after dinner.
n., pl., -dies.
A decorative protective covering for the arms or headrest of a chair.
tidily ti'di·ly adv.
tidiness ti'di·ness n.
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