[Ads-l] sharing the tank

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

> On Aug 21, 2018, at 6:17 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Typo there for "talk"?
> 
> Mark Mandel
> 
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 6:45 AM David Daniel <dad at coarsecourses.com> wrote:
> 
>> From Gizmodo: "Tesla shares tank after tearful Elon Musk interview freaks
>> people out." Apparently, before the interview, Tesla had been keeping the
>> tank for itself.
>> DAD

no.  this verb _tank_ (from NOAD(:

2 US informal fail completely, especially at great financial cost.

Tesla shares dropped drastically after the interview.

arnold

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