{"id":16308,"date":"2006-04-14T09:34:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T16:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/04\/14\/off-the-dime.html"},"modified":"2006-04-14T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T16:34:38","slug":"off-the-dime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/04\/14\/off-the-dime\/","title":{"rendered":"off the dime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've been mentioning a lot of British idioms and slang that I hadn't previously encountered; now here's an American one.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The compromise proposal [...] was introduced last night and \"has moved this issue off the dime,\" said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)[....]<\/p>\n<p>--<cite>Washington Post<\/cite>, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/06\/AR2006040600919.html\">Immigration Legislation Compromise Announced<\/a>,\" by William Branigin and Jonathan Weisman, 6 April 2006<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Don't think I've ever seen that before.  Answers.com's idioms section says to \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/get-off-the-dime\">get off the dime<\/a>\" is to \"Take action, especially following a time of indecision or delay.\"  Claims it's from 1920s dance halls, though that sounds a little dubious to me.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been mentioning a lot of British idioms and slang that I hadn&#8217;t previously encountered; now here&#8217;s an American one. The compromise proposal [&#8230;] was introduced last night and &#8220;has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}