peculiar, deranged, funnies pages, loosen up

Jeff Jarvis

Have noticed the technique: Everything Donald Trump is guilty of or accused of, he accuses Clinton of.
He's crooked. She's "crooked Hillary."
He's deranged and of unsound mind. He accuses her of losing her mind.
He's a bigot. He calls her a bigot.
Doesn't matter that everything he says is untrue. It ends up on a cable news Chyron.
It's his way of stealing the thunder and both media and the Clinton campaign let him get away with it.

The New Yorker Cartoons

A cartoon by David Sipress, from this week’s issue. For more:http://nyr.kr/17cpRN3

As the newspaper industry continues its decline, the funnies pages have decoupled from print. Instead of working for huge syndicates, or for censored newspapers with touchy editors, cartoonists are now free to create whatever they want http://econ.st/1Ksgp7E

Triumph of the nerds

IN 1989 Bill Watterson, the writer of “Calvin and Hobbes”, a brilliant comic strip about a six-year-old child and his stuffed tiger, denounced his industry. In a...

ECON.ST

英語での peculiar の意味

peculiar
adjective
UK /pɪˈkjuː.li.ər/ US /pɪˈkjuːl.jɚ/

peculiar adjective (STRANGE)

unusual and strange, sometimes in an unpleasant way:
She has the most peculiar ideas.
What a peculiar smell!
It's peculiar that they didn't tell us they were going away.
UK The video on road accidents made me feel rather peculiar (= ill).

deranged

dɪˈreɪn(d)ʒd/

adjective

1. mad; insane.

   "a deranged gunman"

funnyPronunciation: /ˈfʌni/

ADJECTIVE (funnier, funniest)
1Causing laughter or amusement; humorous:a funny storythe play is hilariously funny


1.1[PREDICATIVE, WITH NEGATIVE] informal Used to emphasize that something is unpleasant or wrong and should be regarded seriously or avoided:stealing other people’s work isn’t funny


2 Difficult to explain or understand; strange or curious:I had a funny feeling you’d be around




2.1Unusual, especially in such a way as to arouse suspicion:there was something funny going on



2.2informal (Of a person or part of the body) not in wholly good health or order; slightly ill:my eyes go all funny after a bit


2.3British informal Slightly deranged or eccentric:I heard she’d gone a bit funny


NOUN


1(funnies) informal Amusing jokes:the training courses usually produced a good crop of funnies



1.1North American The comic strips in newspapers:I read the sports page, funnies, and editorial


Phrases


funny ha-ha (or funny peculiar) 1


informal Amusing (or strange): used to distinguish the two main senses of ‘funny’:‘Funny ha-ha,’ Robbie said, ‘or funny peculiar?’


[coined by Ian Hay in his novel Housemaster (1936)]


I'm not being funny, but ——

2 informal Used before a statement or suggestion to point out that it is serious, however facetious or strange it may seem:I’m not being funny but I haven’t got all day


see the funny side (of something)

3


Appreciate the humorous aspect of a situation or experience:fortunately, the patient saw the funny side of the situation


MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES


(oh) very funny!

4
informal Used ironically to indicate that a speakerdoes not share another’s joke or amusement:‘D’yeh want a celery choc ice?’ ‘Very funny, I don’t think.’


Derivatives


funniness

1 NOUN

1 Relax one’s muscles before taking exercise:


arrive early to loosen up and hit some practice shots


1.1Become mentally relaxed:they taught me to have fun and loosen up