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The forgotten meaning of "jerk"
Ben Lindbergh at the Ringer asks “When did jerk stop meaning ‘stupid’?” He starts with the Steve Martin movie The Jerk , saying of its protagonist:
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In making one of my occasional visits to Lynne Murphy’s blog Separated by a Common Language , I was directed to a decade-old post on frowns that begins:
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