What’s a wildcat strike? Why do so many American idioms start with wildcat? Is that good or bad from a leftist perspective? Are there even any wildcats involved?
As a non-first language speaker or whatever that’s called this wildcat word is very confusing.
It’s when union members strike without authorization from the Union Leadership.
Why do so many American idioms start with wildcat?
This is a much mroe interesting question that I don’t think I have a satisfying answer for. USians have loved Wildcats (or Lynx, Bobcats, Ocelots) since like the 1800’s.
E) I think the first broadly publicized use of it by US Americans was calling the senators who declared war on Britain in 1812 “Wildcats.”
Is that good or bad from a leftist perspective?
I think the correct answer to this is “It depends.”
“sense of “one who forms rash projects” is attested from 1812”
I get the idea that there’s a pejorative sense to the word. Rash is not typically a synonym you want used in place of wildcat in most of the uses I’ve seen, ie: wildcat strikes.
Also harkens when Nixon tried to use military reservists to replace the postal employees during the 1970 wildcat strike. It barely lasted a week, iirc
What’s a wildcat strike? Why do so many American idioms start with wildcat? Is that good or bad from a leftist perspective? Are there even any wildcats involved?
As a non-first language speaker or whatever that’s called this wildcat word is very confusing.
It’s when union members strike without authorization from the Union Leadership.
This is a much mroe interesting question that I don’t think I have a satisfying answer for. USians have loved Wildcats (or Lynx, Bobcats, Ocelots) since like the 1800’s.
E) I think the first broadly publicized use of it by US Americans was calling the senators who declared war on Britain in 1812 “Wildcats.”
I think the correct answer to this is “It depends.”
No, not in most cases.
Wildcat strike where you just release a bunch of wildcats into the executive suite
From my (2nd) favorite website: https://www.etymonline.com/word/wildcat
I get the idea that there’s a pejorative sense to the word. Rash is not typically a synonym you want used in place of wildcat in most of the uses I’ve seen, ie: wildcat strikes.
Also, “She’s a wildcat”