Timeline for The meaning of "start on the running-down tack"
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| Oct 6, 2021 at 10:22 | history | edited | Dan Getz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2021 at 8:18 | comment | added | gotube♦ | "It'ud" is how this character pronounces "It'd", the contraction of "It would". | |
| Oct 6, 2021 at 8:17 | history | edited | gotube♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2021 at 7:07 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 7:32 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jun 19, 2021 at 13:32 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 19, 2021 at 5:32 | answer | added | Justin Ohms | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 19, 2021 at 5:29 | comment | added | Jack O'Flaherty | Maybe "running down" can mean that as a buyer's agent, he would have to argue that the property wasn't worth as much, that is he'd have to run it down. "Tack" might be from sailing, where one alternates directions to sail against the wind. So, he'd have to switch from building up the property's value to sell it to M'Leod, then switch to running down the value to buy it. That might occasion some embarrassment for the agent. | |
| Jun 19, 2021 at 5:00 | comment | added | randomhead | "It 'ud scarcely do" means "It would not be proper." No idea about "running-down tack." | |
| Jun 19, 2021 at 4:45 | history | asked | Hiroshi Inagaki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |