Common causes, cures for a persistent cough. Cough for a minute or two, and you may think something has gone down the wrong pipe.. Cough for a day or two, and you may think you've picked up a cold or the flu. After a week, bronchitis or allergies may come to mind.
Some ninety years ago Vladimir Lenin coined the phrase âuseful idiotâ and it originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the Soviet leader explained, would âsell us (Soviet Russia) the rope with which we will hang them (the West).â.
Usage and Convention. If usage seems a highly arbitrary matter, it's worth remembering that all language is, after all, ultimately a matter of convention. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, Alice objects when Humpty Dumpty uses the word glory to mean a nice knock-down argument..