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Valerie, you're not a guy but let me explain it to you in sport terms.
He's wrapped himself in the lingo of the financial services industry which sport terms like "Distressed Assets," (my piece, Behind Every Distressed Asset is A Distressed Human Being was published in American Banker, March , 2012.
Surreptitious deals are cut; the sports term "future considerations" would be appropriate here.
These are the people whose favorite sports term is the word "thug".
We have seen how a sports term -- go-to -- can cross the inside-lingo barrier to the general language.
Part of the trend stems from school policy changes, but most of the increase can be attributed to academic "redshirting" – a sports term for the practice of postponing a college athlete's participation in competitive games.
For instance, you might use a sports term your colleagues aren't familiar with and then they miss the instructions that come after the term.
Russia deployed warships off Australian shores for the duration of the summit after Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott threatened to "shirtfront" Putin, using an Australian sporting term that means to charge an opponent in the chest.
I think they should shake hands at center court, and then whip out their Purell pumps right there and schmear it all over themselves, and the ball!" Editor's Note: Is schmear an official sports term?
Like we learned from daily fantasy sports, the term "sport" is defined differently these days.
In sporting terms, no.
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