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Greenbaum in his Grammar , with its democratic, what's said, corpus-based approach to language, unwittingly, I am quite sure, keeps the really proper use of English in the hands of those who are to the manner born, while allowing the media moguls to interpret or misinterpret the topics of public concern as they will and at the same time disallowing the vulgar from gaining a firm grasp on the means by which they might enter the debate.
Moore pointed out that this means Global 2000 is off by nearly 6 percent.
What this means is that the Big Self-Portrait of 1967-68 seems to come out of nowhere.
That means that while the economy can grow faster than 2-point-whatever percent for a while if it starts from a high rate of unemployment (like the 7.5-percent unemployment rate that prevailed in late 1992), in the long run, that growth rate cannot remain higher than the rate that keeps unemployment constant.
Perhaps I am missing something, but, in the event, it is difficult to understand how the expression take (someone) down a peg , which means demean (someone); reduce (someone) in estimation, esp. his own; puncture the self-confidence or arrogance of (someone), unless it has changed somewhat over the years, could be connected with peg tankards.