rump

[Jonathan Lighter]

CNN:

"ISIS has declared a large part of Iraq and Syria as its rump state."

Separatist.

JL


On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 4/26/2014 11:55 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
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> >Interestingly, both East Germany and West Germany were labeled rump
> >states in Wikipedia. West Germany was substantially larger than East
> >Germany. In this special case, all the successor states were called
> >rump states. (I am citing Wikipedia as a imperfect proxy for popular
> >usage.)
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> I suppose who's rump is in the eye of the departer.
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> Joel
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