Bible-bashing
Beverly Flanigan
flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Sat Nov 18 18:49:32 UTC 2006
This usage would be really misleading to us Ohians who know about
Blackwell's Christian conservatism! Since the Economist is from England,
might "bashing" in the "thumping" sense be a Britishism?
At 11:46 AM 11/18/2006, you wrote:
>from the Economist, 11/11/06, p. 14: "and in Ohio the Bible-bashing
>Ken Blackwell, who aspired to be governor, went down in flames."
>
>this would be 'Bible-wielding' or 'Bible-thumping', i.e. 'bashing
>with the Bible', as opposed to 'bashing the Bible'. both senses are
>attested in considerable numbers on the web. context is obviously key.
>
>arnold
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