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Longtime N&O journalist Pam Nelson writes about language use and misuse and answers questions about grammar and style. Readers can weigh in on what annoys them, too. Think of this as your online grammar class. Send e-mail to Pam at pam.nelson@newsobserver.com.
This morning, the phrase "struck on himself" popped into my head. I realized that I hadn't heard it in ages. It means someone who has an inflated opinion of himself or who is in love with himself. As in, "Earl was the best looking boy in the school, but I thought he was struck on himself."
The Learner's Dictionary's entry on "strike" says the phrase is British informal. I grew up hearing it all the time, though, in Catawba County, North Carolina. Being "struck on" yourself was a bad thing to be, too, in my family.
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Sat, 06/27/2009 - 23:26 — elndufThis phrase is being used by television political commentators when they mean 'raises the question', that is calls for a follow-up question.
Has 'begs the question' lost its earlier meaning? It used to indicate that a supposed fact was unproven due to circular reasoning.
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Sat, 06/27/2009 - 23:14 — elndufNew Yorkers use the phrase "stuck on himself' or more commonly, 'stuck up'. Your use of "struck on himself' was new to me.
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Tue, 05/19/2009 - 17:44 — baldezarPut me down for 'stuck on,' which is all I ever heard growing up in Raleigh. 'Struck on' just doesn't make sense to my ear.
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Fri, 05/15/2009 - 14:38 — ctmillerI agree with mizruby. In Oregon, where I grew up, it was stuck on... and stuck up.
Re: struck or stuck
Tue, 05/12/2009 - 19:31 — Pam_Nelson (author)I always heard it as "struck on" oneself, but maybe they are the same thing. I did a Google search with "struck on himself" and "struck on herself" and found some examples.
We did say that someone whose was excessively prideful was "stuck up."
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Struck or stuck?
Tue, 05/12/2009 - 16:29 — mizrubyI had always heard and used that phrase as "stuck on" oneself. I grew up near Pittsburgh, but I've also lived in Cincinnati, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Idaho. I have never heard "struck on." it was always "stuck on." In fact, I thought you'd just made a typo (or that my eyes were failing me), but then you repeated it several times. So it must be a regional thing. Very interesting! :-)
Did you use the term "stuck up" for someone who had a high opinion of himself? ("Look at her with her nose in the air, acting so stuck up.") Or was that also a "struck"?