Knee-jerk
Posted by Sathyaish on February 19, 2004
A contemporary coinage by the press, I suppose, beats my brains in establishing any possibility of a coherence in between the constituent words and the meaning. What the duece did they imagine would be obvious in tying the word knee-jerk to the meaning "automatic" or "predictable".
PS: My memory fails me, what are each of the words (the two nouns or a noun and an adjective as in ) in a hyphenated phrase individually known as?
- Knee-jerk Henry 19/February/04
- Knee jerk reflex Henry 19/February/04
- Knee jerk reflex Sathyaish 19/February/04
- Knee-jerk Barney 19/February/04
- Knee-jerk Sathyaish 19/February/04
- Compound nouns ESC 19/February/04
- Compound nouns Sathyaish 20/February/04
- Compound nouns Smokey Stover 21/February/04
- Compound nouns Sathyaish 20/February/04
- Compound nouns ESC 19/February/04
- Knee-jerk Sathyaish 19/February/04