[Ads-l] "Glide path" to negative result

[Ben Zimmer]

(Oops, make that 2008. Getting my election years confused.)

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> That is indeed unusual. As I wrote in a 2012 Word Routes column, "glide
> path" typically implies a happy landing.
>
> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/happy-
> landings-on-the-glide-path/
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2016 has been a big year for applying the term "glide path" to a political
>> process:
>>
>> http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-22/
>> clinton-trump-now-on-parallel-glide-paths-to-nomination
>>
>> On Face the Nation Sunday morning, I heard Reince Priebus use "glide path"
>> in a negative sense, talking about Hillary Clinton. Very unusual:
>>
>> "Look, she has put us on a glide path which has created a situation that
>> Americans are hurting in this country."
>>
>> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcripts-july
>> -31-2016-sanders-manafort-priebus/
>>
>>
>>

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