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Offline billy_56081

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"fits and starts"
« on: October 14, 2009, 04:11:34 AM »
Listening to the radio today BHO said "progress comes in fits and starts". WTH does that mean? I have never heard that saying before.

Is this some kinda Ebonics talk or some liberal scum language?
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Re: "fits and starts"
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2009, 04:48:52 AM »
It's a regionial idiomatic phrase that means erratically and incrementally.
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Re: "fits and starts"
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2009, 07:00:04 AM »
Fits and starts is a common phrase around here, and it is not urban or common with minorities.  I generally means something with irregular and tumultuous progress.
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Re: "fits and starts"
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2009, 07:27:40 AM »
I'll accept that definition. HOWEVER! Every time Obama starts, I have a fit. So it seems the saying is backwards. At least for me. ;D
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Re: "fits and starts"
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2009, 09:58:56 AM »
Leave it to Dee to put forth the true meaning of something.
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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2009, 10:29:24 AM »
 :o ;D
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Re: "fits and starts"
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2009, 11:37:05 AM »
Fits and starts is a term i have heard over the years.
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Re: "fits and starts"
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2009, 12:45:59 PM »
Yup commonly used in this part of the south.
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Re: "fits and starts"
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2009, 03:24:38 PM »
Yup, commomly used out here in the southwest too.
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Re: "fits and starts"
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2009, 03:29:55 PM »
Quote from: billy_56081 on October 14, 2009, 04:11:34 AM
Listening to the radio today BHO said "progress comes in fits and starts". WTH does that mean? I have never heard that saying before.

Is this some kinda Ebonics talk or some liberal scum language?

Rhymes with shi?$ and far?$!
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