Is 'area man' an Onionism or do you folk use that phrase in real life?
And have I just asked a really dumb question?
And have I just asked a really dumb question?
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I have no idea what you are on about (and haven't read the Onion regularly since leaving the US).
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As a synonym for "local man", used only in newspaper headlines. As in "Area man bites dog".
It's mainly an onionism, but they're riffing off bad local newspaper copy.Comment
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Ah, it suddenly becomes clear.
Gramsci's right (even if he is Canadian); you would only see it in the headline of a bad local newspaper, most likely one that claimed to cover a rather amorphous region rather than a well-defined city.Comment
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