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It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical , or it might be from the imitative word hiss ; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse , meaning a `severe scolding,' which is probably from a Biblical allusion.
Though the packaging of the book is clearly meant to communicate, "buy this and get rich!" (let's be grateful the publisher didn't make the Carville allusion more explicit and call the book It's About the Money, Stupid! ), the Rev. Jackson would probably say he's preaching not the gospel of wealth but the gospel of financial responsibility and independence.
Known as La Pedrera (which means “stone quarry,” an allusion to its limestone surface), this stunning apartment house is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It has often been derives from the name of the clown Grock, an allusion to the red sunburnt noses of seaside holidaymakers.
In Clinton's first inaugural, the only allusion to the race problem is in this sentence: "From our revolution, the Civil War, to the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, our people have always mustered the determination to construct from these crises the pillars of our history."