consider, v.i.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Which isn't in OED either.


JL

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Fells like a twist on considering:
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> "A pretty good day, considering."
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> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> OED 5a ("to think deliberately, bethink oneself, reflect") needs a
>> tweak to cover the rather recent nuance exemplified in a current TV
>> commercial.
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>> "A pretty good day - when you consider!"  (Viz., consider that you
>> narrowly avoided killing yourself.)
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>> I'd add the whole phrase: "_when you consider_, colloq. when you
>> reflect on other possible outcomes."
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>> Undoubtedly a truncation of "when you consider it."
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>> It seems impossible to Google the intransitive phrase successfully:
>> exx. with complementary phrases seem unfilterable.
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>> I'd be surprised if it's more than fifty or sixty years old, at least in
>> print.
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>> JL
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