Reply #4: You are such a taskmaster. I was struggling to describe what must be [View All]

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some toughness needed in the hard scrabble of career competition, a toughness that even those like her who have an image of sweetness and pleasantness must have to survive in that business of cruelty and rejection. Think "LENO" hiding in a closet of the room where executives are deciding his career fate and his slashing Conan out of his way.

Not every language device has to be in terms of an idiom (universally recognized, commonly accepted, often cliched), does it?!1 As Quitter PALIN and SHAKESPEARE knew, we sometimes create new words and expressions?!1 :7