Photo credit: Why Labor Today, 1/12/2024
Headline: New York Times, 9/18/2024
Appanrlty, O'Brien told Trump some of his deepst, darkest secrts during that Mara-a-Lago tête-à-tête.
But the former president worked hard to curry Mr. O’Brien’s favor, inviting him to his private club and residence, Mar-a-Lago, this summer and then granting him his wish for a prime-time speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in July. The Democratic convention rebuffed him.
Mr. O’Brien’s openness to Mr. Trump — who angered other unions by appointing anti-labor members to the National Labor Relations Board and praising Elon Musk recently for a willingness to fire striking workers — has badly divided the union.
According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of 'paper tiger', as in one that is outwardly powerful or dangerous but inwardly weak or ineffectual, occurred in 1836,
Other coinages from the same year include:
- beaten biscuit
- chuckhole
- creepy
- impressionable
- polarizable
- snake charme
- wandering albatross
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