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