[Lexicog] When is an "in" word """in"""?

[Mike Maxwell]

Fritz Goerling wrote:
>     Mike Maxwell replied:
>     I'm trying very hard to promote the use of 'warm' to mean 'cool, neat,
>     nifty'.
>
>     FG:
>       Are you saying that tongue-in-cheek?

Yes.

OTOH, I am a linguist, so I actually have a license to speak manguage.
(= mangled language, a la Humpty Dumpty)



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