As in the expression:
If you use someone or something as a yardstick, you use them as a standard for comparison when you are judging other people or things.
Chatting to Mrs C this morning, who is a few years younger than me, she used the expression ‘yardstick’ within a sentence and quickly corrected herself and said:
“I mean measuring stick - I’ve never used yards…”
Should I boot her out or be more tolerant…?
Does anybody still use the word in that context?
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Yardstick
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robertff
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Re: Yardstick
C wrote:As in the expression:
If you use someone or something as a yardstick, you use them as a standard for comparison when you are judging other people or things.
Chatting to Mrs C this morning, who is a few years younger than me, she used the expression ‘yardstick’ within a sentence and quickly corrected herself and said:
“I mean measuring stick - I’ve never used yards…”
Should I boot her out or be more tolerant…?
Does anybody still use the word in that context?
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Pretty sure I used it the other day.
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souphound
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Re: Yardstick
I was an inch away from using it just now in fact.
Footy wrote:Last week, I discovered that the cordless drill I bought about 5 years ago is, in fact, a cordless screwdiver.
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mudshark
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Re: Yardstick
I was thinking of a measured response, but my mind's miles away right now.
There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over
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Tom Waits For No One
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Re: Yardstick
You’ve thought about it furlonger than you should. Do what Howard Jones instructed you to do and throw off your mental chains.
Give a shit or be a shit.
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souphound
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Re: Yardstick
And here I thought he had just told him to cubit.
Footy wrote:Last week, I discovered that the cordless drill I bought about 5 years ago is, in fact, a cordless screwdiver.
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Santa C
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Re: Yardstick
souphound wrote:I was an inch away from using it just now in fact.
mudshark wrote:I was thinking of a measured response, but my mind's miles away right now.
Tom Waits For No One wrote:You’ve thought about it furlonger than you should. Do what Howard Jones instructed you to do and throw off your mental chains.
I just can't fathom it out, but then again I'm not in your league
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LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.
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Darkness_Fish
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Re: Yardstick
Doh, beaten to the pun.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Santa C
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Darkness_Fish wrote:Doh, beaten to the pun.
Give an inch and I’ll take a mile
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LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.
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souphound
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Re: Yardstick
You guys are just lightyears ahead.
Footy wrote:Last week, I discovered that the cordless drill I bought about 5 years ago is, in fact, a cordless screwdiver.