Fun With Synonyms
February 17, 2009 in Media
Evidently Reuters has hired C. Montgomery Burns to write their headlines. Can’t you just see a knickerbocker-clad paperboy standing on a sooty streetcorner yelling “Extra! Extra! Rap mogul “Suge” Knight injured in fracas!”?
Other equally old-fangled words for “fight”:
commotion
dust-up
flap
hullabaloo
ruckus
rumpus
set-to
spat
squabble
tiff
