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     Re: their bid has been beaten into submission   
     By: Alexander Koryagin to All on Fri Jan 10 2020 07:53:38   
      
      
    AK> What a strange expression -- "their bid has been beaten   
    AK> into submission". By  the scientists themselves? I would   
    AK> understand the phrase like "The robbers beat their   
    AK> victim into submission", but this one...   
      
   it is an analogy and/or euphemism ;)   
      
     he beat the code into submission by rewriting it.   
      
      
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