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Buck

(OP)
Is it correct to say; buck to buck the buck?

luis

RE: Buck

That would depend upon what you are trying to say. Without knowing the context the phrase means nothing.

cheers

RE: Buck

(OP)
In the dollar context.
 
Become more vigorous the dollar at a shift responsibility

RE: Buck

Quote:

Become more vigorous the dollar at a shift responsibility
This must be losing something in translation, it is not a cohesive statement to native English speakers.
"Buck the buck" could be construed to mean to devalue the dollar, because one obscure meaning of "buck" is to lessen, as in a "buck transformer" in the electrical world. But I can't place a solid contextual meaning to the first "buck" in that phrase you asked about.

Buck can mean "try" as in "Buck for a promotion"; so maybe it can mean "trying to devalue the dollar"?

Buck can also mean "to resist", as in "To buck a trend"; so maybe it would mean "trying NOT to devalue the dollar"?

But I don't know anyone who would say any of that other than as a joke.

RE: Buck

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

John, where Mary had had "had", had "had had"; had "had had" been the correct answer, John would have been right.

RE: Buck

"Buck" can also mean to cut, split, and stack as in a chord of wood.  I'm not sure if that works into the translation though.  (its only Monday here)

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Buck

Maybe, but it is a CORD of wood. 128 cu ft. 4x4x8

RE: Buck

It is 128 ft^2. I "Bucked up 2 chord" just last night.

RE: Buck

What instrument did you play those chords on?

cheers

RE: Buck

It was a duet; Stihl saw and American splitter.

RE: Buck

You never heard of whistling while you work?

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Buck

Isn't it also an American man's name, and the action a horse (or similar ungulate) performs to remove something from its back?

in reply to jimkirk:
If I wrote...
Dave, where John had had "had had", had "had had had"; "had had had" had had more marks in the gramattical exercise they were doing.

Then could I also write..

Richkeogh, where jimkirk had had "had had "had", had "had had"; had "had had"" had "had had "had had", had "had had had"; "had had had" had had"; "had had "had had", had "had had had"; "had had had" had had" had had the effect of making the sentence practically unreadable, and making Richkeogh need to go for a long lie down in a darkened room somewhere.

RE: Buck

Seems to me that I have heard this same logic before - oh yea - it was Clinton defining a certain three letter word.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Buck

In thinking on it further - that's really passing the buck.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Buck

(OP)


After the buck of my horse, I fall down, in the meantime my bucks fall out of my pockets, blown by the wind; to this we call it inflation.


luis

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"Buck" is a word that Brits can't pull off and should never try to.  Like septics trying to say "Quid".  Each to their own.

RE: Buck

"Like septics trying to say "Quid""
Septics??? ponder People who are full of $**t?

cheers

RE: Buck

... maybe the phrase "pull off" could also be misconstrued by ESL nations??

RE: Buck

(OP)
It is correct to say to the bank clerk;
Can you pass me the buck of a book of 1000 bucks in notes of 10?

Respectfully of course, without any type of weapon pointed to the bank clerk

RE: Buck


now I've got a bucking headache!

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"

RE: Buck

I'm going to buck this trend and get the buck outa here!


Al Bundy's dog, "Buck"
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RE: Buck

THAT'S NOT AL BUNDY'S DOG BUCK... IT'S BUCKMEISTER FULLER'S BUCK DOG.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Buck

Not that I'm being picky, but shouldn't that be Buckminster Fuller.
Known to his close friends as 'Bucky'.

RE: Buck


Personally I LIKE the typo.  Suits the personality of old Bucky (at least what I heard in architectural history class)

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"

RE: Buck

Re 'septics': I'm surprised that someone with a name like CorBlimeyLimey isn't familiar with Cockney rhyming slang!

Buck is also a technical term in forestry, refering to the cutting of a felled tree into logs. Many bucks are lost through poor bucking.

RE: Buck

(OP)
Buck buck in an oil field door?

LUIS

RE: Buck

CBL, I hadn't noticed that before, Septic Tank - Yank.

Not normally differentiating between true Yanks and those from the South, just generic terms for those from the States.

KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...

RE: Buck

It's also the noise that a chicken makes.

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