Timeline for A phrase meaning trail blazing without being concerned about the consequences to others
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| Nov 20, 2021 at 17:37 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2021 at 17:36 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | As nouns, I'd say railroad is a much more typically American usage than it is British, and looking at the AmE Google Books corpus it's maybe 100 times more common than the noun ramrod, whereas in the BrE corpus, a railroad is only about 4-5 times more common than a ramrod. In Britain we seem to be just as happy to use the verb form to railroad as Americans, but it seems that only Americans ever talk about ramrodding some new law through the legislature, even though in other contexts they don't seem to use that term so much. | |
| Nov 20, 2021 at 17:24 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | cf 'He was telescoping Saturn.' | |
| Nov 20, 2021 at 17:19 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2021 at 17:17 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | They're (were a/an) railroader doesn't work though, unless they're working on a train. | |
| Nov 20, 2021 at 17:12 | history | answered | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |