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But the LAT front-page piece offers an explanation: the move signifies the "demise of the slash-and-burn turnarounds of the 90s."
Note: no selection for an attribute signifies to this system that all of the values are possible.
The possibilities are endless for who means he while, contrariwise, he means she, and me signifies who.
The estimates of misfirings like this run as high as fifteen percent by those who fire flintlocks these days, when the expression signifies an intense but short-lived success or a person who fails to live up to his or her early promise.
It is not always easy to ascertain whether the underlying metaphor in such expressions is the bow and arrow or the gun and cannon (see Peter A. Douglas's “The Bows' Stratagem,” VERBATIM VI,3), but we can be fairly certain that the wad in shooting one's wad refers to the wad that held the powder and shot in position to be fired from early guns and that the pot in potshot signifies the dinner pot to be filled with an animal that was shot close up without any regard for rules.