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The phrase "threat or menace" is commonly used in headlines to satirize an unfair prejudice. News columnists use the phrase frequently. Examples include the LATimes.Com,〔http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/10/michael-hiltzik-occupy-wall-street-threat-or-menace.html〕 Forbes〔http://www.forbes.com/sites/gyro/2011/10/26/marketing-threat-or-menace/〕 and Wired.〔http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.11/hack.cong.html〕 It may have been borrowed from the legal phrase "without threat or menace,"〔https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.usage.english/EWv6wGMRvKY〕 which is one of many fixed phrases in which two nearly synonymous words are combined, such as "let or hindrance" and "cease and desist." Early satirical uses of "threat or menace" are in ''Harvard Lampoon'', ''National Lampoon'' and ''The Amazing Spider-Man''.〔http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2251〕 Before then, the phrase occurs in the title of an anti-drug film, ''Marijuana: Threat or Menace'',〔http://www.pdcomedy.com/Drugs/ThreatOrMenace.htm〕 whose style suggests that it was made before 1960 and thus could have inspired the ''Lampoon'' writers; though its authenticity is in doubt.〔 ==In the ''Lampoon''== In 1968 the ''Harvard Lampoon'' published a parody of ''Life Magazine'', which included a story called "Flying Saucers: Threat or Menace". In July 1971 the ''National Lampoon''s cover story was "Pornography; Threat or Menace?"〔http://www.marksverylarge.com/issues/7107.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Threat or menace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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