From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] once more: drawterm osx-x11 on x86-64
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:13:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff01d7765cf71aaaf379244ff6604284@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b3e4c7a34529e5fa8fbc04e7434fad0@felloff.net>
> what does "out of whack" mean?
Off the rails, perhaps. I presume that it's one of those English
expressions (like "doubtedly" or "all but...") that originally meant
(rightly) the exact opposite of what it (wrongly) does now: you whack
something into place, so it's out of whack if it's not right any more.
Lucio.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-28 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-27 0:00 Mark van Atten
2015-02-27 22:40 ` Mark van Atten
2015-02-27 23:10 ` Jeff Sickel
2015-02-27 23:27 ` Mark van Atten
2015-02-28 1:19 ` Jeff Sickel
2015-02-28 2:14 ` Steven Stallion
2015-02-28 8:07 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-02-28 8:13 ` lucio [this message]
2015-02-28 8:18 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-02-28 8:29 ` Bakul Shah
2015-03-02 7:55 ` erik quanstrom
2015-03-02 8:47 ` Steve Simon
2015-02-28 9:17 ` Mark van Atten
2015-02-28 0:39 ` yy
2015-02-28 1:09 ` Sean Hinchee
2015-02-28 1:35 ` Jeff Sickel
2015-02-28 18:05 sl
2015-02-28 18:29 ` Bakul Shah
2015-03-10 17:32 michaelian ennis
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