Word (phrase?) of the year? - "double down"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> As Mitt Romney is said to have done in his hastily-arranged press
> conference in California yesterday evening.  And at other times, and
> as others have been accused of doing.

See my latest Word Routes column for more:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/why-is-everyone-doubling-down/

--bgz

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