garb, garble, sanctimonious, collection, sheath, scabbard, a whip round, Ron “DeSanctimonious.”

It has been 11 years since he took charge in China, yet the world continues to garble Xi Jinping’s name and title. President Zee he is not https://econ.st/480S6NG

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Ron DeSantis and former President Donald J. Trump were once warm political allies. But that was before Florida’s governor became Trump’s chief Republican presidential rival. Now the affection has been replaced by insults like Ron “DeSanctimonious.”

Here’s a look at their history →

Édouard Manet
Young Woman in Oriental Garb, 1871

When it comes to Bolton’s comments on impeachment, the clotted prose, the garbled argument and the sanctimonious defensiveness would seem to indicate some sort of ambivalence on his part — a feeling that he doesn’t seem to have very often.

It may be irksome to have to keep your “I'm With Her” T-shirt or MAGA button under wraps while pulling the lever, but it’s hard to imagine that rule “chilling” speech


Do voters have a right to wear political garb at the polling booth?
A Minnesota law barring politics at the polls arrives at the Supreme Court
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'So flippant, so careless, so ignorant, so utterly deplorable'


Incredulous laughter at Trump's garbled words on the Middle East
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Is C.C.'s academic garb from Yale?

Once strictly for conservatives, Alpine dress is becoming cool for Germans. Tracht, traditional Bavarian garb, has never been so common and cosmopolitan. Increasingly, it is the Alpine answer to American cowboy hats or Chinese qipao (their sheath-like, high-necked dress) http://econ.st/167MHQV

Taiwan police take pity on thief and donate new bike

(AFP) – 

TAIPEI — Police in Taiwan who had arrested a man for stealing a bicycle discovered he was so poor that they decided to have a whip round and buy him a bike.
The man, surnamed Huang, stole the bicycle from a high school near his home in Chiayi city in central Taiwan to save his daughter from her daily five-kilometre (three-mile) walk to the closest bus stop on the way to her vocational school, the China Times reported Thursday.
Huang had told his daughter he bought the bicycle second-hand, but after it was recognised by its former owner both father and daughter were taken in by the police.
Once police officers heard about the desperate conditions that the Huang family was living in -- with no access to water or electricity -- they had a collection and bought a new bike for the girl.


" not so that you would forget it on cobbler's bench and garble it."

Ankhi Mukherjee, a literature professor at the University of Oxford, said that she had taught Han’s work “year in, year out” for almost two decades. “Her writing is relentlessly political — whether it’s the politics of the body, of gender, of people fighting against the state — but it never lets go of the literary imagination,” Mukherjee said, adding: “It’s never sanctimonious; it’s very playful, funny and surreal.”

sanctimonious

/ˌsaŋ(k)tɪˈməʊnɪəs/

adjective

derogatory

1. making a show of being morally superior to other people.

   "what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?"
2. 
   

 

garble
(gär'bəl)
tr.v., -bled, -bling, -bles.

1. To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible: She garbled all the historical facts.
2. To scramble (a signal or message), as by erroneous encoding or faulty transmission.
3. Archaic. To sort out; cull.

n.
The act or an instance of garbling.

[Middle English garbelen, to inspect and remove refuse from spices, from Anglo-Norman garbeler, to sift, and from Medieval Latin garbellāre, both from Arabic ġarbala, to select, from ġirbāl, sieve, from Late Latin crībellum, diminutive of Latin crībrum.]

garbler gar'bler (-blər) n.

• [gɑ'ːrbl]

[動](他)

1 〈事実・言明などを〉ゆがめる, 曲解する, 改ざんする；〈文章などに〉勝手に手を加える.

2 〈記号・メッセージなどを〉混同する, 取り違える.

3 ((古))…をえりすぐる, 精選する.

━━[名][U][C]歪曲(わいきょく)（したもの）.

-bler

[名]

sanctimonious

ˌsaŋ(k)tɪˈməʊnɪəs/

adjective

derogatory

1. making a show of being morally superior to other people.

   
   

   "what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?"

garb1

Pronunciation: /gɑːb/

noun

[mass noun]

• clothing, especially of a distinctive or special kind:kids in combat garb

verb

[with object]

• dress in distinctive clothes:she was garbed in Indian shawls

Origin:

late 16th century: via French from Italian garbo 'elegance', of Germanic origin; related to gear

garb[garb]

• 発音記号[gɑ'ːrb][名]((形式または文))

1 [U]（特に職業・時代・国柄などを表す）服装, 衣装, （一般に）衣服, 身なり

a room decorated in Victorian garb
ビクトリア朝風の部屋.

2 [U][C]外観, 見せかけ

a scoundrel in the garb of a priest
聖職者を装った悪党.

━━[動](他)((〜 -selfまたは受身))（…を）着る, （…の）身なりをする((in ...)).




collection

1 [U][C]集めること, 収集, 採集；集合；[U]（税金・家賃などの）徴収, 取り立て, 集金

garbage collection
ごみの収集

field collection
訪問集金

the collection of taxes
徴税

build a collection of stamps
切手を収集する.

2 収集物, 所蔵品, コレクション；((a 〜))（おかしい・奇妙な人の）集団

a large record collection ［＝a large collection of records］
たくさんのレコードの収集.

3 コレクション：高級服飾店の新作発表会；その作品全体.

4 [U][C]（慈善事業や教会のための）寄付金；寄付金募集, 募金

make ［take (up)］ a collection
募金をする, 寄付金を募る.

5 （ほこりなどの）堆積(たいせき).

6 ((〜s))((英))（Oxford大学などの）学期末試験.

Meaning

An impromptu collection of money from a group of people, in order to fund some joint enterprise.

Origin

The sad spectacle of the alcoholic ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne was reported in the UK press in February 2013, with the accompanying reports that his celebrity friends had organised a 'whip round' to fund his stay in a rehab clinic.

So, why is the collection of funds called a whip round? This expression is very much 'made in England' as it derives from fox hunting, the British Army and parliament.

sheath

Pronunciation: /ʃiːθ/

noun (plural sheaths /ʃiːðz, ʃiːθs/)

• a close-fitting cover for the blade of a knife or sword.
• a structure in living tissue which closely envelops another:the fatty sheath around nerve fibres
• a protective covering around an electric cable.
• (also sheath dress) a woman’s close-fitting dress.
• chiefly British a condom.

Derivatives

sheathless
adjective

Origin:

Old English scǣth, scēath 'scabbard', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schede, German Scheide, also to the verb shed²

scabbard

Line breaks: scab|bard

Pronunciation: /ˈskabəd /

NOUN

1A sheath for the blade of a sword or dagger, typically made of leather or metal:a ceremonial sword hung at his side in a gilded scabbard

1.1A sheath for a gun or other weapon or tool.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French escalberc, from a Germanic compound of words meaning 'cut'(related to shear) and 'protect' (related to the second element of hauberk).