im confused on the difference between HuffpostOpinion and Huffpost. maybe that's why they were eliminated, redundancy.

stable genius

Trump saved the steel industry. add that to the pile of accomplishments on top of Solved North Korea and defeated ISIS.

They're the same thing. HuffPo is entirely biased opinion reporting.

I guess they hired an efficiency director and he nipped that redundancy in the butt. Good for them.

nipped in the bud.

as in, stopped the growth of a plant well before it flowers and creates fruit to procreate when it is in the pre-flower "bud" stage.

that one is up there on my pet peeve list with "blessing in the skies" (not, "in disguise") or even worse "irregardless".

brb going to yell at my father on the phone. Had no idea it was in the bud.

it's one of the more commonly incorrect phrases people say every day without a second thought.

America is the only place where 'nip it in the butt' is a commonly spoken phrase

we have all sorts of issues with regional echochambers for stuff like common phrases.

the ones that irk me are the incorrect ones, just misheard stuff.

but we also have these weird sayings from the south that are borderline non-nonsensical to us northerners. or worse yet the bastardized one's, like "i'll be there in 3 shakes of a coon's tail" derived from "3 shakes of a lamb's tail". Lamb's shake their tails quite often, coon's don't, but coon tail hats were popular, so people squashed the two sayings together. just odd....

while we're on the fucking subject i have a love/hate relationship with reading Scottish peoples' twitter posts. "te" can mean "to" or "the", it seems, among 27 other things im sure. and that's just the tip of the iceberg. i dont want to read Welsh twitter, im not sure i could make heads nor tails of any of it.