Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Well, Buffalo is generally meant to imply running one by some one;
putting one over on; confounding one ... etc. Actually, my dictionary
offers:
verb ( -loes, -loed) [ trans. ] (often be buffaloed) informal
overawe or intimidate (someone) : she didn't like being buffaloed.
• baffle (someone) : the problem has buffaloed the advertising staff.
Dean
So if one is successfully buffaloed, you could say one has 'been had'?
(just to keep the thread).
:)
cd
On Jul 22, 2007, at 2:39 PM, keith helgesen wrote:
What about eleven times "had"? I remember this from high school- (Yes- 60
years ago!)
Two boys, John and James wrote an essay;
John, where James had had 'had', had had 'had had'. "Had had" had had the
teachers approval.
Bizarre language we use, eh?
BTW- I, not being from US and therefore not really familiar with the verb
'to buffalo' meaning (I think!) to thwart, found the buffalo sentence
very
odd.
(World record for most prepositions at the end of a sentence, from a
child protesting an Australian bedtime story: "Mommy, what did you
bring that book that I didn't want to be read to out of about Down
Under up for?")
A preposition poem:
I lost a little preposition.
It fell somewhere beneath my chair.
I called aloud to it "perdition,"
Come on up out from down under there.
My daughter brought it to her 3rd grade class, and was asked, for
fun, to diagram the whole thing.
David Froom
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