Weasel words – the phrase invokes a vivid visual.
There’s only one problem: which weasel words did you mean?
There are actually two very different uses (…if it were a frequently used phrase, it might qualify for skunking). Let’s get to it.
First, a note: In honor of the gratuitous comparisons and contrasts spawned by President Obama’s visit to Osawatomie, Kansas, this week, 101 years after Teddy Roosevelt did the same, I’m posting on a Roosevelt-related topic.
According to Garner, Teddy Roosevelt was one of the first to attach a definition to the phrase weasel words, in a speech given in St. Louis, Missouri, on May 16, 1916:
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks out eggs it sucks the meat out of the egg and leaves it an empty shell. If…
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