Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Slang word of the day: beyond the pale

Today's slang word of the day is beyond the pale. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.

beyond the pale

adjective

  • unforgivable.
    "I think it's a lack of judicial integrity to say enough is enough," Norris says. "We've got a man, 70-year-old attorney, in jail for over a year on coercive confinement and that is way beyond the pale. No matter what else he may have done, that is improper."

    -- "Ex-lawyer jailed 14 months, but not charged with a crime", CNN, Abbie Boudreau, Emily Probst and Dana Rosenblatt, May 24 2010

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

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