2025年1月7日 星期二

a pop, whoopee, should bin its illiberal attempt. “Well, making whoopee with the intelligentsia was the way I earned them.”

Civil liberties in Britain
A taste for cracking down

The government should bin its illiberal attempt to restrict protest

Economic development
How to promote African factories

A sub-Saharan industrial revolution need not be a pipe dream






At €265,000 ($322,000) a pop, early adopters of electric motorboats are happy to pay premium prices


ECONOMIST.COM
A new generation of electric motorboats take to the water
Teslas making waves

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bin
BRITISH
noun
  1. 1.
    a receptacle in which to deposit rubbish.
  2. 2.
    STATISTICS
    each of a series of ranges of numerical value into which data are sorted in statistical analysis.
verb
  1. 1.
    INFORMAL
    throw (something) away by putting it in a bin.
    "piles of junk that should have been binned years ago"
  2. 2.
    store (something, especially wine) in a bin.
    "paint on the bottles indicated which way up they should be binned"



whoopee
exclamation
UK 
 
/ˈwʊp.i/
 US 
 
/ˈwuː.pi/
Whoopee, it's the holidays!
“You see these gray hairs?” Dorothy Parker asked in The New Yorker in 1928. “Well, making whoopee with the intelligentsia was the way I earned them.”

whoopee
informal
exclamation
/wʊˈpiː/
  1. expressing wild excitement or joy.
    "I shouted ‘Whoopee’ and went for a swim"
noun
/ˈwʊpiː/
  1. wild revelry.

a pop

infml  for each one:
The tickets cost $200 a pop.
Note:
  • Used after an amount of money, esp. a large one.

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