switcheroo
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| Singulier | Pluriel |
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| switcheroo \ˌswɪtʃəˈɹuː\ |
switcheroos \ˌswɪtʃəˈɹuːz\ |
switcheroo \ˌswɪtʃəˈɹuː\
- Échange, changement inattendu.
- In a corporate merger, it is usually the big company that buys a smaller one. Last week Boston's up & coming Tracerlab, Inc. pulled a switcheroo. Tracerlab, which grossed only $1,700,000 last year, bought the much bigger ($8,000,000 gross) Kelley-Koett Mfg. Co. — (« Business & Finance: Switcheroo », Time, 30 avril 1951)
- When you are dealing with American presidents, you always have to watch for the old switcheroo. Lyndon Johnson opposed Barry Goldwater's "extremism" on Vietnam, then proceeded to try to bomb Hanoi back into the stone age. Richard Nixon opposed price and wage controls, until he suddenly adopted them. — (Don McGillivray, « Carter, true to form, pulls the ‘switcheroo’ », dans Montreal Gazette, 18 avril 1977)
- The Manhattan Theater Club has pulled a switcheroo, delaying a planned production of Gone Home, by John Corwin, and replacing it with Four, by the 26-year-old playwright Christopher Shinn. — (Jesse McKinley, « On Stage and Off », dans New York Times, 21 décembre 2001)
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- switcheroo sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)
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