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Some lib wrote a new two-woman play where Nancy Pelosi repeatedly "owns" AOC with zingers until AOC admits Pelosi was right about everything (www.vulture.com)

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

How old do you think the word "upstart" is?

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upstart (n.)

1550s, "one newly risen from a humble position to one of power, importance, or rank, a parvenu," also start-up, from up (adv.) + start (v.) in the sense of "jump, spring, rise." As an adjective from 1560s. Compare the archaic verb upstart "to spring to one's feet," attested from c. 1300.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shakespeare was even called this by a contemporary theatre critic

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