[Ads-l] Transitive "transpire" = 'do'

[Jonathan Lighter]

I think it is. It *wouldn't* matter, would it?

JL

On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 11:17 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> From a Times report this morning on the unfolding speakership battle:
>
>
> Speaker Kevin McCarthy said after the House G.O.P. meeting that he plans
> to rip the Band-aid off and bring the motion to vacate this afternoon.
> “Matt has planned this all along. It didn’t matter what we transpired,”
> McCarthy said to reporters.
>
> --Reporter Kayla Guo, at
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/03/us/mccarthy-gaetz-speaker-news
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>
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> I haven’t noticed this before; not sure if there’s anything in the files
> on this use.  AHD has this for transitive “transpire”:
>
> 'To give off (vapor) through the stomata of plant tissue’
>
> I suspect that’s not what Speaker McCarthy had in mind, although
> youneverknow.
>
> LH
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