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Sun 8 Aug, 2021 02:21 pm
Yet with karate making its Olympic debut in Tokyo, her sudden elevation in May shook the sport in the land of its birth. Unlike her predecessors, she is young, female and willing to challenge the conventional wisdom of a discipline that is traditional, some would say, to a fault.
What does "traditional to a fault" mean in the above context?
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Could someone please help? Thanks!
@tanguatlay,
It means that it is so traditional that it has become a liability or a weakness. It's a different way of saying it is "hidebound".
@engineer,
engineer wrote:
It's a different way of saying it is "hidebound".
I have never heard of that word before.
@tsarstepan,
There was a quiz show over here called Call My Bluff, two teams of three would talk about words from the Oxford English Dictionary, all three would give a definition, but only one would be correct.
The opposing team had to guess the real meaning.
The reason it worked is because there are thousands of words in the English language that have fallen out of use and are pretty much forgotten.
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