In or Under the Bus?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

If peace came on a silver platter, today we would examine it for hidden explosives.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

The world has great needs.
Come with us on our way.
The world looks frightening.
Come with us on our way.
The world is in danger.
Come with us on our way.
You love the world.
You come with us on your way.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“I told you guys before: No child left behind. C’mere kids.”

[Something like it, but no, He didn’t say this.]

D. Blog- A Strange Metaphor: Throw Someone Under the Bus

[Thanks to the doubletongued.org website]

throw (someone) under the bus

v. phr. to reject or betray (someone); to treat as a scapegoat; to put out of favor or at a disadvantage. Citations:
[1984 David Remnick @ New Jersey Washington Post (Sept. 7) “Pensive, With Orange Hair Cyndi Lauper & Her Tunes on Tour ”: In the rock ’n’ roll business, you are either on the bus or under it. Playing “Feelings” with Eddie and the Condos in a buffet bar in Butte is under the bus. Peter Frampton is under the bus. God willing, so are the Bee Gees.]

1991 Erin Emery @ Fort Morgan Gazette Telegraph (Colorado Springs, Colorado) (Dec. 12) “Hood talks without thinking, friends testify at murder trial” p. B1: Dees said he talked to Hood after he bonded out of the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center on Sept. 26, 1990, and warned him “that he was being thrown under the bus by Jennifer Reali.” But he said Hood believed Reali “was going to tell the truth.”

1993 John Nash Bangor Daily News (Maine) (July 17) “Tom Curley’s ‘passion’ returns to Oxford 250”: We got thrown out and learned to live on our own and then Oxford got thrown under the bus (by NASCAR). I guess we’re bretheren that got thrown under the bus and we found each other and decided we were a nice match.

1995 James Lawless Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Feb. 20) “Director Of Bureau Under Fire” p. 1B: We have benefited from having him here and I don’t feel any need to throw him under the bus.…He’s gotten pretty good results. He could use some help from his members, who could pay more. He has had some rough times, but you have to look forward.

2003 Stewart Mandel Sports Illustrated (Apr. 21) “Laying down the law”: Dorsey has the audacity to finish his career 38-2 instead of 39-1 and you guys are ready to throw him under the bus.

2006 Sports Illustrated (Oct. 1) “Report: Grimsley implicated Clemens, Pettitte, Tejada, others” (in Los Angeles): The affidavit also alleged Grimsley told federal agents that Roberts, Gibbons and Tejada “took anabolic steroids.” “What can I do? I spent one morning last year with Grimsley,” Tejada said Sunday before the Orioles played at Boston. “I mean, I already got thrown under the bus with (Rafael) Palmeiro.

Reader comment: No implication was intended re the validity of the origin or use of either saying, in any genre. I would, however, postulate that, much like a child’s game of Telephone, popular sayings spread exponentially; so that the origins of their impetuses can be, and often are, exceptionally obscure. –S. Cohen

[My comment: Which Republican candidate is throwing the other, however unintentionally, under the bus?]