"triage" (v.)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 1 19:20:13 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Guy in Ford commercial takes car in for repairs. Tells ad star Mike Rowe
> that "Fiona...immediately triaged the situation and found out what was
> wrong with the brakes."
>
> Triaged????
>

My feeling precisely!

BTW, was the car taken in to - or should that be "into"? - a Ford "store"?

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