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The BS Dictionary
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The BS Dictionary

by Bob Wiltfong, Tim Ito
April 2020
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 38m
English
Association for Talent Development
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under the radar idiom 1. Going unnoticed. 2. Doing something without anyone noticing.

BS Definition: Slipping that calculator from work into your computer bag because your child needs it for homework.

Origin: Radar itself—which stands for “radio detection and ranging”—started with experiments by German scientist Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century. Hertz showed that radio waves could be reflected by metallic objects, but it wasn’t until June 17, 1935, that the first radio-based detection and ranging system was first demonstrated in Britain, thanks to the work of Robert Watson-Watt, a physicist specializing in radio waves.1

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ISBN: 9781950496174