[Ads-l] caribou and reindeer (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 6:00 PM Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> > On Mar 14, 2019, at 2:22 PM, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) <
> 0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > You mention "man up" as a synonym for "grow a pair".  FWIW, I've also
> heard "cowboy up" and "nut up" as equivalent.
>
> on my blog:
>
> 11/6/15: cowboy up:
>
> https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/06/cowboy-up/


See also my On Language column from 2010, which has "man up," "cowboy up,"
"nut up," "sack up," etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05FOB-onlanguage-t.html

--bgz

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