“Do you believe the world will come to a close in 2012,” I was asked the other day, “as predicted by the ancient Maya people?”
Just to show that I have little respect for Hollywood, I solemnly declared my position – usually, you know, I would keep my position on a grave matter like this to my self. “My position is: The world will come to a close, but not in 2012 – Mayas – may they all rest in peace – aside, the world simply will not be influenced by a Hollywood movie.”
I’m sitting tight and staying put. In other words, I’m not committing suicide or financing a trip to the mars.
Anyways, “stay put” simply means to stay where one is, in the same place and not moving, and this awkward sounding phrase to the Chinese ear has been in the English language since the first half of the 1800s, according to the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms.
Here’s a recent media example:
A steady flow of new immigrants is providing a late-decade population boost to major metropolitan areas such as Chicago, Miami, New York and Los Angeles, whose states are seeking to stem declines before the 2010 census.
Even with a recent dip in immigration, the addition of foreign migrants into those major cities most attractive to them has cushioned substantial population losses from native-born Americans who had migrated to interior parts of the U.S. in search of jobs, wider spaces and affordable housing before the recession.
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