"embrace the suck"

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Fri Dec 13 16:13:28 UTC 2013


Nancy Pelosi told House Democrats yesterday to accept the budget deal and
"embrace the suck" (late-breaking candidate for Fred's QOTY list?). I wrote
about the history of this expression for Slate's Lexicon Valley blog:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2013/12/13/embrace_the_suck_nancy_pelosi_used_a_slang_military_phrase_when_urging_house.html

--bgz

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