Timeline for What does “big league” in President Trump’s remarks mean? Is it common to use “big league” in English as an adjective or adverb?
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| Mar 7, 2018 at 18:49 | answer | added | Gregory Benoit | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 7, 2018 at 18:27 | history | protected | Mitch | ||
| Mar 7, 2018 at 18:25 | answer | added | Karlomanio | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 7, 2018 at 18:02 | comment | added | Mitch | See also What does Donald Trump mean by 'bigly' | |
| Feb 18, 2017 at 12:08 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A |
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| Feb 18, 2017 at 12:06 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | We're going to need either a trump or trumpism tag pretty soon. Oh, wait we do :) I had completely forgotten. | |
| Feb 18, 2017 at 10:08 | history | edited | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 18, 2017 at 9:16 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/832881449548312576 | ||
| Feb 18, 2017 at 3:55 | answer | added | mahmud k pukayoor | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 18, 2017 at 3:43 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 18, 2017 at 2:50 | comment | added | Just Someone | Originally "big league" was used as a metaphor in the way Hot_Licks articulates. For example, if a lawyer moves from a village in Arkansas to a law firm in DC, it sounds natural to say "She is in the big leagues now." Usage beyond that metaphor makes one's self sound very Trumpian. Personally, I'd never do this. | |
| Feb 18, 2017 at 2:11 | comment | added | Elliott Frisch | I like to imagine that he's referring to the bubble gum. Darn Mexico, taking our sweets. | |
| Feb 18, 2017 at 2:03 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It is, of course, a Trumpism to a large degree. "Big league", in the US, refers primarily to "major league" baseball teams and games, or at least to adult baseball, as opposed to "Little League" children's baseball. The idiom has been detached from that meaning over the years, though, and now might be used to refer, eg, to a company which has grown to the point that it can compete with others in a national market. Trump abuses it to a degree to simply mean "big", or "bigly" (sic), as you suggest. | |
| Feb 18, 2017 at 1:37 | history | edited | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 18, 2017 at 1:30 | history | asked | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |