triage

[paul johnson]

paul johnson

Change, or just someone who has a poor vocabulary, but did watch reruns
of MASH?  I was listening when this was said, my feeling was triage was
being used instead of losses / bleeding.
On 1/30/2013 6:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> This might bea new meaning or just goofy application of the old one. (But
> remember that change begins somewhere....)
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> Ashley Banfield reports that BlackBerry shares have lost 76% of their value
> in the past couple of years, "and that's what we call *triage*!"
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> JL
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