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GUEST,Anne Lister mysteriously sans cookie | BS: Sloppy use of language (169* d) | RE: BS: Sloppy use of language | 12 Jul 11 |
One that has me shouting at the radio (where I come across it most) is the phrase "mitigate against". You can militate against something, and you can mitigate (soften) something. You can't, though, mitigate against anything. |