Tag: Daniel Defoe

• Why are efforts described as “last-ditch”?

  Recently, I’ve come across a number of articles describing the Republican establishment’s “last-ditch efforts” to stop their party’s nomination of Donald Trump for the U.S. presidency: But why do we call these efforts “last-ditch”? In the etymological trenches In 1706, English writer Daniel Defoe published Jure Divino, a verse satire in which he extolled William…

  John Kelly

  March 22, 2016

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