godspeed and terror
"Good luck, godspeed - and have a little fun up there."
This was the messgae from the launching director to the Discovery astraunats, according to NYT. And we all know that the expression 'godspeed' is used to wish someone success. But checking the OED, I also know that there are other constructions such as:
- the godspeed (of a thing) = the finsih
- in the godspeed = in the nick of time
- at the back of godspeed = at the back of beyond
Moving to another play of words, watching the news there was some high ranking American general saying that instead of the expression 'war on terror' they are using now 'war on violent extremism' which uses terror as a method. Don't they just know everything? ;-)
Mai
This was the messgae from the launching director to the Discovery astraunats, according to NYT. And we all know that the expression 'godspeed' is used to wish someone success. But checking the OED, I also know that there are other constructions such as:
- the godspeed (of a thing) = the finsih
- in the godspeed = in the nick of time
- at the back of godspeed = at the back of beyond
Moving to another play of words, watching the news there was some high ranking American general saying that instead of the expression 'war on terror' they are using now 'war on violent extremism' which uses terror as a method. Don't they just know everything? ;-)
Mai
posted by Mai at 7:34 PM
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