Bible-bashing

[Beverly Flanigan]

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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