Timeline for Meaning of "broken off short"
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| Feb 16, 2013 at 23:08 | vote | accept | Kiron | ||
| Feb 16, 2013 at 23:03 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @FumbleFingers Rare, but not unknown. Google Books gives 4 instances among 107 actual hits on “broken off short”, from Edith Nesbit (2), James Jones and Georgette Heyer, and three more instances in which texts are so broken. | |
| Feb 16, 2013 at 22:15 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Not as rare as the verbing of aposiopesis. | |
| Feb 16, 2013 at 22:10 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The idiomatic broke off short is indeed common in relation to discourse, but it would be vanishingly rare for that sense to be intended with the form broken off short. | |
| Feb 16, 2013 at 20:32 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |