Although the expression probably began in the specific sense in which I used it -- offer up a sacrifical victim in your own stead --, it has been generalized to mean "wash your hands of so-and-so, usually for not a good enough reason."
Any time you call somebody a "clubhouse cancer" -- another sports term, meaning, a guy who is a jerk -- you've basically thrown him under the bus. Not because you think the guy's a jerk, but because "clubhouse cancer" is so total and damning an epithet to use that it must not be true, unless the guy in question eats the babies of his teammates.
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ita, you probably already know about this 7th annual capoeira festival but just in case.
Also the Serenity Fan Fest and the movie got a plug on the ABC morning news wheee!
EtA: We use "throw under the bus" all time at work - usually in the "gee, didn't mean to throw you under the bus but I thought the boss already knew you weren't really sick but playing golf" sort of way.
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Okay, is "throw Person X under the bus" totally unknown outside of sports journalism?
I've never heard of it. Wolves, yes--bus, no.
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Although the expression probably began in the specific sense in which I used it -- offer up a sacrifical victim in your own stead --, it has been generalized to mean "wash your hands of so-and-so, usually for not a good enough reason."
How does throwing someone under a bus work as a scapegoat/distraction? In fact, I'd thought throwing someone to the wolves was a "so they won't eat me" gesture, opposite to Vortex's read.
Kat's pictures made me bounce. Lunch was fantastic as predicted and I even have some cobbler left over.
Allyson's story about the fan is just as charming. And here I am, trapped in the UNCHARMING Midwest without a Serenity premier. Fooey, I say, FOOEY!
UGH! I told you I walked out of my first ever OB appointment when pregnant with Ben, right?
Cindy, it's even funnier because this is the first appointment Christopher was able to make with me and he has ZERO tolerance for overbooked doctors. Good thing our doc is so damned funny. He made us laugh and we forgot about the hideously long wait. It also helped that we got taco bell right afterwards since we were both starving.
Happy Birthday, Emmett!!! Many happy returns!!!
My husband is a grandfather-abbreviated-for-business-purposes-formerly-a-ski. My favorite teacher-name was the Armenian 4th grade teacher Mrs. Dermanuelian.
Nutty now spends too long reading sports blogs - she has picked up the lingo. Cult! Cult! Not our cult!
is "throw Person X under the bus" totally unknown outside of sports journalism?
I think I've heard it before, but it's not the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the phrase.
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. That one I've heard numerous times before.
Of course, I never realized where the phrase "throw in the towel" actually came from until I was at a kick-boxing match and this one guy was just getting completely demolished by his opponent from the instant the bell sounded. Next thing I knew there was a towel sailing into the ring and they called the fight. It was a distinct epiphany moment.
