pregame = 'occurring before a scheduled meeting'

[Jonathan Lighter]

By using such words as "foreplay" in these contexts, they could pull viewers
away from Fox News.

Perhaps, Charlie, you and I should offer our services as communications
consultants.  I could use the extra bucks.

JL





On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> That extension suggest the etymological sense (also extended) of the noun
> "prelude"--or (as we might say more Anglo-Saxonishly) "foreplay."
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> --Charlie
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> Another CNN hotshot describes "the pregame speculation" before the G-20
> summit, particularly before conversations between the U.S. and China.
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