The same could be said for Renault, which has ripped up the traditional silhouette of the Scenic to create a vehicle that aims to deliver the same proposition of space and practicality as before, but with zero emissions and a different profile.Īmid all of this, it’s probably no coincidence that Tesla has chosen this moment to add its facelifted Model 3 to the mix. Little wonder the brand’s design team reckon they’ve skipped a whole generation in moving ‘the BMW saloon’ forwards.
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Yet from within the same basic stable, BMW’s Neue Klasse (above) shows a more radical approach, with a funky-looking saloon that’s a world away from the current 3 Series – yet likely to form the indirect replacement for it in only a couple of years’ time. Then there’s MINI, which appears to have made its Cooper hatch cuter than ever, while giving it a more premium-looking cabin, more neatly integrated tech (love that circular screen) and, as far as compact EVs go, pricing that should make it competitive. Still pretty tame, say we." From the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988).Munich Motor Show 2023: news round-up and all the new cars
Still another man, the late Charles Earle Funk, fantasized an elaborate theory based on speculation that the expression really out to be 'rip and tuck,' and said it had to do with ripping cloth and then tucking it together when making a patchwork quilt. Funk's theory : " There are a very considerable number of theories about the origin of this expression, which means 'closely contested or neck-and-neck.' 'It was nip and tuck whether the car or the train would reach the crossing first.' Some authorities claim that the expression comes from tucking in an infant ('little nipper') but this seems much to tame to us.
Pretty thin? Well, even some dictionary derivations with all steps known look superficially thinner." From Heavens to Betsy! and Other Curious Sayings by Charles Earle Funk (1955, Harper & Row). By successive rips and tucks the patchwork comes out even. A rip, of course, is the result of what mother does to a piece of cloth in reducing it to smaller portions the tuck the fold she makes in one such portion to sew it to another, as in making a patchwork quilt. The dictionaries, playing safe, refuse even to guess at the source, but I'll stick my neck out to suggest that perhaps Paulding was right. Porter ".wrote it both 'nip and tack' and 'nip and chuck.' But 'nip and tuck' has been common usage through the years since. Paulding's 'Westward Ho!' : 'There we were at rip and tuck, up one tree and down another.' Maybe the rip originally came from 'let 'er rip' and later became nip because of the expression 'to nip someone out,' to barely beat him, while the 'tuck' was simply an old slang word for 'vim and vigor.' Other guesses at the phrases' origins are even wilder." From the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997)Ī second reference states that a dozen or so years after Mr. The earliest recorded form of the expression is found in James K. NIP AND TUCK - "Nip and tuck pretty much means 'neck and neck,' but the latter phrase suggests, say, two runners racing at the same speed with neither one ahead of the other, while 'nip and tuck' describes a close race where the lead alternates. The short answer is, no one knows the origin. : I haven't been able to find a satisfactory explanation for the origin of the expression "nip and tuck." I understand that it means a situation of essential equality, but what is the origin of the "nip" and the "tuck?" In Reply to: Nip and Tuck posted by chicoles on December 03, 2000
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