Talk:bad money drives out good
Latest comment: 9 years ago by Dan Polansky in topic RFD
RFD
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- bad "failing to reach an acceptable standard" (MWOnline); drive out
"To force someone or something to leave some place:" (AHD)"force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings" (WordNet 3.0)- If the second sense is attestable and its use is more than a naive misunderstanding of the original meaning, this would have to be kept.
- Our first definition seems wrong as the expression is normally thought to be a simplification of Gresham's law. I suppose it is possible that this doesn't make sense nowadays, except to a businessman or an economist and this needs to be explained.
- That would make it a keep by virtue of evidence of actual misunderstanding or its potential for misunderstanding. DCDuring TALK 14:48, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
- I didn't know what it meant until I just read it now. Sounds like a keeper. Renard Migrant (talk) 19:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
- Keep since it appears untransparent on the face of it, and since idioms.thefreedictionary.com has it[1]. Furthermore, if the sense "Overvalued mediocre talent replaces undervalued real talent" really exists, it is an utter keeper. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:32, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
- Keep Because "money" in this sense can me something other than "cash" Purplebackpack89 12:52, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
- RFD kept per consensus. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:20, 20 September 2015 (UTC)