2016年10月8日 星期六

poofter, perplex, scratch one's head, head-scratcher, diss, peccadillo, conniption, mic

  He said Clinton has peccadilloes of her own, most notably marital woes with her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
 

Abe's Style Perplexes Allies and Rivals8

Brazil’s Ruling Party Is Perplexed by Revolt
The government watched with dismay as Brazil’s largest city braced for more demonstrations on Thursday.


Consumers' Big Question: What's in It for Me?
By TARA PARKER-POPE
More than a week after President Obama signed the sweeping new health care law, many of us are still scratching our heads. What just happened?


Wall Street Journal- India (blog)

Test Run: Facebook's Poke App Is a Head-Scratcher

By BRIAN X. CHEN
Facebook's Poke app is a clone of Snapchat, an app popular among teenagers who use it for "sexting." It's a bit of a head-scratcher for adults.



Obama, Sarkozy Overheard Dissing Netanyahu

French PM calls Israeli leader a “liar”; didn’t realize mic was on.



The resignation of Mark V. Hurd last week from his seemingly secure post as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard has got to be one of the great head-scratchers in recent times.


Stories about Mr. Hurd lavished praise on his no-nonsense style. H.P. under Mr. Hurd has “become the benchmark for efficiency in an industry known more for its whiz-bang appeal than its operational excellence,” wrote Adam Lashinsky of Fortune in 2009. Four months ago, Forbes put Mr. Hurd on its cover, attributing H.P.’s success to “dramatic cost-cutting” and “a brutalizing culture of accountability.” Even Mr. Hurd’s temporary replacement, the chief financial officer, Cathie Lesjak, who seemed to go out of her way to diss him, said in the press release announcing his resignation that “our ability to execute is irrefutable.” That could never be said during the reign of Queen Carly.


H.P. says its board should be applauded for not letting Mr. Hurd off the hook. But this is just after-the-fact spin. In fact, the directors should be called out for acting like the cowards they are. Mr. Hurd’s supposed peccadilloes were a smoke screen for the real reason they got rid of an executive they didn’t trust and employees didn’t like.

The stand-up thing would have been to fire Mr. Hurd on the altogether legitimate grounds that the directors didn’t have faith in his leadership. But of course Wall Street would have had a conniption if the board had taken such a step. So instead, it ginned up a tabloid-ready scandal that only serves to bring shame, once again, on the H.P. board.


mic=mike 麥克風

to diss (third-person singular simple present disses, present participle dissing, simple past and past participle dissed)
  1. (US, UK, slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.

pec·ca·dil·lo (pĕk'ə-dĭl'ō) pronunciation
n., pl., -loes, or -los.
A small sin or fault.

[Spanish pecadillo, diminutive of pecado, sin, and Italian peccadiglio, diminutive of peccato, sin, both from Latin peccātum, from neuter of peccātus.]


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n. Informal
A fit of violent emotion, such as anger or panic. Also called conniption fit.

[Mock Latin, perhaps influenced by SNIP or SNAP.]




head-scratcher

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2010/07/03 23:02 UTC 版)

語源

Compound of head +‎ scratcher. Literal sense 1873, figurative 1971.

名詞

head-scratcher (複数形 head-scratchers)
  1. A scratcher for the head.
  2. A puzzle.

同意語

関連する語


head scratcher



scratch one's head
Express puzzlement or perplexity, think hard, as in They scratched their heads over this vexing question, but no one knew the answer. Although literally scratching one's head may simply betoken the fact that it itches, it also may indicate mental mystification or bewilderment. The term's figurative use dates from the first half of the 1900s.

WSJ Mocks NYT Publisher

Michael Wolff noticed a familiar face in Saturday's Wall Street Journal. Prominently displayed in a photo illustration of "girly men" is the lower half of the mug of a certain famous newspaper publisher. "It's not just that Rupert Murdoch doesn't like Arthur Sulzberger," Wolff writes. "it's that he thinks he's weak—girly." Wolff says the News Corp. chairman considers the Times publisher "a punch line" and a "poofter." For proof, look no further than the Journal's Saturday story on how "women from healthier populations prefer feminine-looking men." Included in the illustration is what Wolff calls an "unmistakable" portion of a face, including "dimple and odd right ear." "Without a doubt, the Wall Street Journal has selected Arthur Sulzberger as a prime example of its idea of a feminine-looking man," Wolff writes. There are six images in the illustration; five are stock art and one is credited to the New York Times. Murdoch believes he has a special gift for irritating Sulzberger which, if he's right, will come in very handy during what Wolff predicts will be "a very nasty newspaper war."


poofter
n. - 男性同性戀者

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - なよなよした男, ホモ








perplex

Pronunciation: /pəˈplɛks/

Definition of perplex
verb



[with object]
  • make (someone) feel completely baffled:she was perplexed by her husband’s moodiness
  • dated complicate or confuse (a matter):they were perplexing a subject plain in itself

Origin:

late 15th century (as the adjective perplexed): from the obsolete adjective perplex 'bewildered', from Latin perplexus 'entangled', based on plexus 'interwoven', from the verb plectere

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