"bush league"
sagehen
sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Fri Jan 20 21:15:49 UTC 2006
>Good work, Bill. Does anybody still use "bush" in a general sense to mean
>"unprofessional, inept, childish, etc." I first heard that in the late '
>'70s.
>
> JL
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I don't, in fact, use it very often, but I consider it as still available
and viable to denote "unclassy." I'd have thought it might have taken a
new lease on life about five years ago!
AM
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