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No, we will not share your email address with anyone or send you spam. So, it's pretty straightforward, right? The EOD team basically spends the entire film trying to avoid going to the hurt locker We're pretty sure if we asked Eldridge, he'd say having your leg shattered in nine places qualifies as hurt-locker territory. To put another spin on it, you could also say that the war itself is a hurt locker. Like the experience these guys have dismantling bombs and facing death and dismemberment every single day?
Rightly or wrongly the language seems to lend itself well to sports. Bill Collwill, membership secretary of the Sports Journalists Association, says military terms and analogies are popular in sport reporting. He himself has drawn on the Falklands conflict when England comes up against Argentina in sporting clashes. You rack your brains to find the appropriate words to use.
I think it would boil down to a person having a military imagination. And Nick Szczepanik, baseball and American football correspondent for the Times, says war words lend themselves to writing about sport. Particularly in international sports, it is war without weapons. We talk about victory and defeat - the ratcheting up of the whole value system. The temptation is to reach for something that makes [sport] more important. Just as a hatful of Academy Awards will boost box office takings and DVD sales for the film, the phrase "hurt locker" will also see a spike in usage, at least temporarily, says Robert Groves, of Collins Dictionary.
Most Popular Now 56, people are reading stories on the site right now. BBC News. News Front Page. E-mail this to a friend Printable version. Economists may describe a company having a bad year or experiencing falling stock values as being in an economic hurt locker. Video gamers have taken to the expression as well to describe how they will dispatch with opponents or bad guys, as have fitness enthusiasts and trainers for intense workouts.
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