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It’s yours to lose

That’s why they have, say, put up adverts on television announcing they have two jobs on offer. Then they have sorted through some 70 CVs to finalize a list of three people for a face-to-face interview.

Let’s say the first interviewee passes the interview with flying colors and is given the job. The second person somehow fails to impress and therefore is eliminated. That leaves you the only person left for the second and last job on offer.

That is a perfect situation for someone to say to you, by way of encouragement “the job is yours to lose”, meaning so long as you don’t make a major fool of yourself in the interview terribly, the job is yours.

One vacancy, one applicant. It obviously is yours, but you may still lose it. That’s why people, especially Americans, like to say: It’s yours to lose.

Alright?

All right, here are a few media examples of the real-world situation where some prize becomes somebody’s to lose – and, no doubt, other people’s to win.

1. So what happens next?

All the pressure is on Sarah Palin for the vice presidential debate. She goes in with many voters concerned about her answers to media questions over the last week or so. A significant number of Americans do not believe she is qualified to be president. And concern and infighting is beginning to surface among Republicans about her performance.

In fact, many Republicans are saying the problem is that the McCain campaign needs to “let Palin be Palin”. (Hmmm, I remember well many folks saying that about Bush after some mistakes in his campaigns, and thinking, well, sometimes we didn’t want Bush to be Bush.)