Reply
Thu 13 Oct, 2011 01:56 am
"So Hogan looked at personalty disorders that characterized people who were arrogant, abrasive, and neurotic and 'did some recreational psychometrics and boom - up pops this test, and it just works like crazy in predicting performance,' he says. 'We don't like to talk about personality disorders because lawyers will come after us.' To be a good leader, however, you have to get alone."
Here I cannot understand this sentence "'We don't like to talk about personality disorders because lawyers will come after us."
Could you explain it? Thank you!
I believe the author means that he does not wish to speak of the personality disorders (as he sees it) which puts people in positions of power, because if he names such people, they will sue him for libel--lawyers will come after him.
To "come after" someone is an idiom that means to react to what you have done with another action.
His mother came after him when he wrecked the car.
The bank will come after you if you write bad checks.
It is used in informal speech or writing.
Selected Answer
Stumble It!
Tweet This
Bookmark on Delicious
Share on Facebook
Share on MySpace