The VOA (Voice of America, the United States Government-sponsored propaganda radio) Special English program Words and Their Stories once gave the following example while explaining the word “chip”:
The word chip can also be used in a threatening way to someone who is suspected of wrongdoing. An investigator may say, “We’re going to let the chips fall where they may.” This means the investigation is going to be complete and honest. It is also a warning that no one will be protected from being found guilty.
Cause and effect – Let the chips fall.
Because they will.
Here are two more recent media examples:
1. The latest in a series of somewhat bizarre off-the-cuff remarks by Premier McKeeva Bush was made when he called in to a local radio talk show – apparently during a trip to Florida – and suggested that Cayman residents should not talk to the foreign media about Tuesday’s earthquake, so as not to provide publicity detrimental to our tourism industry.
We really have to wonder what kind of strange parallel universe Mr Bush is living in if he believes that such a suggestion is ever likely to be effective or appropriate...
Reader Comments:
Daniel Gless:
Suppressing the news is like trying to suppress the sunrise or the waves in the sea. It is impossible. Mr Bush sounds like a certain Mr Bush we used to have. Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans didn’t happen until the various news agencies were on the ground reporting the total devastation. Even then the Office of Emergency Management denied the emergency situation. But it did exist! The earthquake happened, it did exist. To deny or suppress that fact only makes one look very foolish. Mr Bush would do well for his people to let the news be the news; let the chips fall where they may and accept the thing the rest of us call reality.
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