This is nearly two centuries old, I think. It derives from “How comes it that …?”
Or, perhaps, “How does it come to pass …”, gradually shortened down.
Let’s go to the videotape. S1E1, end of first scene before the title sequence.
Well, if it was the Supreme Court Region of the US (eg SCROTUS), or something like that, that would be awkward.
superior court operating throughout upper Michigan
I’m annoyed when a person who has nothing to do with music is called a “rock star”.
I still say “city pound” and I volunteered there weekly (sometimes more than once in a week) for over a year or so. It’s just too unwieldily to say “animal care and control,” the official name. It’s not really a “dog shelter,” either. It’s the city pound.
I’m annoyed when some musicians are called rock stars. It has been as devalued as “super model.”
There’s a car pound in New Orleans. Don’t ask me how I know.
Ah, yes. “City pound” can also refer to a number of city towing lots as well, depending on context, of course.
I’ve never heard it called that here in Florida or New York. Impound lot is what I’d be more likely to hear.
That’s why “car pound” stuck in my memory. It was different therefore memorable.
“It’s been a minute” to mean “it’s been a long time.” It’s worn out, over used, not clever, and not funny. Please retire this jocular locution.
“Skin in the game”. It seems to be always used to justify putting burdens on those that qualify for some sort of public assistance. “Sure we should have scholarships for the needy, but make them take out some loans too. They need to have some skin in the game.” Come on, a lot of these people don’t have much if any money. Why insist that they totally impoverish themselves to get a little help from the rest of us?
“A package of measures”.
What does this package come wrapped in?
Red tape. What else?
I don’t see why we cannot have free education through bachelor’s degree.
I would be onboard with that if the last six years of free education were contingent upon maintaining at least a C average.
I don’t have any problem with requiring stricter admissions standards for tertiary education than simply being alive and residing in a certain area. But it seems to me that it would be of great benefit to society to have a more educated society. Of course, we will still have private institutions, but state schools should not be charging more than primary and secondary schools, IMHO.
Getting back to the topic of the thread, here’s another contribution:
“It’s just a theory” regarding evolution in an attempt to dismiss its validity. Nope. It’s not “just a theory”. It’s a scientific theory.
It’s not even a theory anymore, but demonstrable fact.
Evolution is like gravity. The theory is merely trying to explain how observed reality works. Regardless if the theories are right or wrong, the phenomena that the theories try to explain are objectively and irrefutably real.