The dynamics of cloud computing have unleashed a paroxysm of hardball for control of the big freakin' webtone switch, with the phrase's inventor reportedly facing off against his successor to protect his legacy.
The sixth edition of the dictionary, published in 1976, included the phrase "switched on".
Leaving behind opulent, costly gimmicks, Cauboyz assembled light-up boxes in a wooden frame each box connected to a control panel with switches assigned to each phrase and word in the song.
But the phrase "bait and switch" came up a lot.
When exterminators offer 'non-toxic ant poison', we charitably switch relativizations within the noun phrase: the substance is safe for human beings but deadly for ants.
At this juncture, switch gears, and write the phrase "how to" on the board.
Use instead: training A perfectly reasonable phrase has been switched round, causing readers' hackles to rise in the process.
Flipping through "Tremolo," you immediately confront a prickly stir of humor, philosophy and romantic giddiness; reading this book is something like walking into a kitchen at a party and coming upon a wild charmer you'd never met, mid-gesticulation -- a terrific storyteller, but also one eager to switch gears mid-sentence, mid-phrase, mid-thought.
Their own energy secretary got caught, if I might use a Texas phrase, sleeping at the switch.
McNealy pitches vision of computing as a utility, coins phrase: "Big freaking Web tone switch".
