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bites shoots and leaves
Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 01:01 amComposing an email to a work colleague, I wrote, "I just wanted to make sure we're not biting ourselves in the foot".
Something didn't sound quite right about that, so I looked up the expression. Oh, it's usually "shooting", not "biting". That makes more sense. But then I didn't feel like mentioning shooting in the email, and I was copying an Indian colleague who might not be familiar with the expression anyway, so I changed it to a plainer sounding "not causing ourselves potential future problems".
Something else in a recent work email made me smile. The email mentioned "the Metallicize value", and I wondered what that meant, until I looked at the pasted code block and saw a "maxTableSize" variable highlighted.
Something didn't sound quite right about that, so I looked up the expression. Oh, it's usually "shooting", not "biting". That makes more sense. But then I didn't feel like mentioning shooting in the email, and I was copying an Indian colleague who might not be familiar with the expression anyway, so I changed it to a plainer sounding "not causing ourselves potential future problems".
Something else in a recent work email made me smile. The email mentioned "the Metallicize value", and I wondered what that meant, until I looked at the pasted code block and saw a "maxTableSize" variable highlighted.