Sunday 12 December 2021

One armed paper hangers

I’d always thought the “one armed paper hanger” thing was in the vein of “as busy as…”. 

Kevin Williamson says it’s something else:

A one-armed paper hanger, if you don’t know, is someone who makes an argument that goes, basically: “I have a personal experience relating to x, so, therefore, my opinion about x is dispositive.”

In his piece here