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Let us now praise the sardine

Chan School epidemiologist suggests eating lower on the seafood chain, pointing to environmental benefits and reduced mercury risk. At first, Ms. Garrett backed Mr. Bellesiles. “I realize that he made some errors, but they certainly were not made intentionally,” she told The Chronicle of Higher Education in early 2002. “They were the result of some over-quick research.”

India Scrambles to Supply Oxygen as Covid-19 Patients Gasp for Breath

• The country’s Supreme Court ordered the government to come up with a national oxygen distribution plan as coronavirus cases continue to climb.
• India had over 330,000 new cases in 24 hours, the health ministry said Friday, the second consecutive day it has set a global record for daily infections.

Washington Post

When Trump said during the debate that not paying taxes "makes me smart," a group of undecided voters in NC gasped.

When Trump said that not paying taxes ‘makes me smart,’ undecided voters in N.C. gasped

The Republican nominee was not as attractive to some after the first…

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He began by laughingly calling the latest news on the economic meltdown “a interesting moment” and ended by saying that “our energy policy has not been very wise” and that there was “no quick fix” on gasp-inducing gas prices.



 last-gasp, Brexit deal. playing sardines

There is a solo-living boom among the old and rich. The young and poor are pushed into playing sardines
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Britain’s housing paradox: overcrowding and underoccupancy are both rising
As more young people share, more elderly rattle around alone




Barring a miracle, Britain's prime minister looks like losing again this weekend

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Boris Johnson will struggle to sell his last-gasp Brexit deal to Parliament




It’s not just Scotland’s schools. The whole PFI racket is crumbling
The scandal of Edinburgh’s unsafe schools is the last gasp of a discredited…



sardines - Urban Dictionary

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A game you can play with your friends. One person hides, and the other friends split up and look for that person. If they find the hiding person, they have to hide with the hiding person until everyone is hiding in one place. The last person to find ...

over-quick 

: too quick or ready.

Overquick Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

last-gasp

adjective

1. done at the last possible moment, typically in desperation.

   "Wilson levelled with a last-gasp try"

last-gasp bid

The French presidency unveiled a new cabinet line-up on Sunday in a last-gasp bid to secure a budget for 2026 and find a way out of a deep political crisis that has hampered decision making in the euro zone's second biggest economy.

AI Overview

A "last-gasp bid" is an action or attempt made at the very last possible moment, often after a series of failures, and it is not expected to succeed. The phrase originates from the final, difficult breath a person takes before death. It is used to describe a final effort, a last-minute goal in a sports game, or the end of a dying entity. 

Examples

• A last-ditch effort: A company making a "last-gasp" attempt to attract customers by changing its name after many failures. 
• A sports context: A football team scoring a winning goal "in the last gasp" of the game. 
• A figurative context: An industry in decline making its "last gasp" before shutting down. 

AI 概述

「最後一搏」是指在最後一刻做出的行動或嘗試，通常是在經歷了一系列失敗之後，並且預計不會成功。這個片語源自於人臨終前艱難地喘息。它用於描述最後的努力、體育比賽中最後一刻的進球，或垂死實體的終結。

範例

最後一搏：一家公司在多次失敗後，為了吸引客戶而做出的「最後一搏」。

體育脈絡：一支足球隊在比賽「最後一搏」中打進致勝球。

比喻語境：一個衰落的行業在倒閉前做「最後一搏」。

gasp through a tracheotomy tube
tra·che·ot·o·my (trā'kē-ŏt'ə-mē) 
n., pl. -mies.
Surgical incision of the trachea through the neck, as to make an artificial opening for breathing.
━━ n. 【医】気管切開（手術）.
Wikipedia article "Tracheotomy"
At 89, founder of the ultra-rightist Fuerza Nueva, which even Franco found too reactionary, he greeted me eager to launch headlong into a kind of stump speech for the old dictatorship, pausing, from time to time, to gasp through a tracheotomy tube.

gasp
verb [I]
1 to take a short quick breath through the mouth, especially because of surprise, pain or shock:
When she saw the money hidden in the box she gasped in surprise.
[+ speech] "Help me!" he gasped.

2 UK INFORMAL be gasping to be very thirsty

gasp
noun [C]
when you gasp:
He gave a gasp of amazement.



quick fix noun [C] INFORMAL DISAPPROVING
something that seems to be a fast and easy solution to a problem but is in fact not very good or long-lasting:
People are still looking for the quick fix.
He warned against any quick-fix solutions.