Okay, is "throw Person X under the bus" totally unknown outside of sports journalism? (I presume the bus in question is the team bus, since it's "the bus" not "a bus". Worse to be run over the conveyance of your own teammates than to be flattened by a convoy of gambling-bound grandmas.)

If I'd said, "attempted to throw Tejada to the wolves," would you all have thought there was really a pack of hungry wolves standing around in suburban Baltimore?

Wow, what a great Homicide episode that would have made.

But Chicago is also dog-friendly in the littlest details. Outside the Engine 55 firehouse in Lincoln Park, firefighters keep a hydrant trickling into a bucket for thirsty hounds passing by and hand out dog biscuits as though the pups were costumed kids at Halloween.

Ooh, the firehouse two blocks from my apt. does this. And a lot of restaurants have water bowls and doggie treats set out on the sidewalk.

If I'd said, "attempted to throw Tejada to the wolves," would you all have thought there was really a pack of hungry wolves standing around in suburban Baltimore?

Nope. That one is way more common. Plus, everyone knows Baltimore suburbs have deer, bears and buffalo, but no wolves.

The town I grew up in had about a 50% Polish immigrant decendent population. I grew up thinking that names ending in -ski were the norm.

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Okay, is "throw Person X under the bus" totally unknown outside of sports journalism?

It was to me. But I'm clueless about a surprising range of things sometimes.

If I'd said, "attempted to throw Tejada to the wolves," would you all have thought there was really a pack of hungry wolves standing around in suburban Baltimore?

I've heard "throw [person] to the wolves," but never "throw [person] under the bus."

is "throw Person X under the bus" totally unknown outside of sports journalism?

Hell, I didn't even know it was common in sports journalism. Are we talking offering someone up to be "killed" as a distraction from your own sins? Or just abandoning someone?

I had several -ski teachers. They all taught social studies.

I, too, was thinking literal bus, and for a second, baseball was interesting.

Oh well.

What's in the tea, that stimulates the hippie woowoo (love this!) or hormone stimulation, Plei?

The usual mix of galactogues:

Sweet fennel seed, anise seed, coriander seed, spearmint leaf, lemongrass leaf, lemon verbena leaf, althea root, blessed thistle herb, and fenugreek seed.

(Oatmeal is also considered a galactogue.)

If I'd said, "attempted to throw Tejada to the wolves," would you all have thought there was really a pack of hungry wolves standing around in suburban Baltimore?

No. But the teams do ride a bus, and nobody knows what is up with Palmiero. You see, I believed him when he testified.

And prior to his positive test, I would have told you that since he had been under so much suspicion, that even if he hadn't always been clean in the past, he'd have been clean at the time of his screening which turned up positive, because he had to have known it was coming, random or no.

Okay, is "throw Person X under the bus" totally unknown outside of sports journalism?

no, I've heard it before. to me, it has a slightly different connotation than wolves. Throw someone under a bus says that you are trying to deflect attention from getting busted by pointing out someone else's issue. throw to the wolves just means needlessly placing blame, not so much for your own gain.

So, someone thrown under a bus can also be thrown to the worlves, but not vice versa. Of course, I'm queen of semantics, so most other people don't care :)