Not P but another DFW question

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for replying, David and Mark.


On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 5:11 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> To keep something in one's back-pocket as written here means to have a
> remedy ready
> if it is needed.  See back-pocket prescriptions, a wide definitional use,
> it seems.
>
> I think it cleverly carries this association: conservatives, wanting to
> believe less government, less
> pragmatic legislation is generally better, would rather let the real-world
> solve things.....free-market uber alles,
> that conservative belief.
>
> And as clearly stated, it lets conservatives come off as in touch with the
> real world while progressives are
> out-of-touch "idealists".
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 6:01 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From "Authority and American Usage":
>>
>> As it is, though, liberals’ vanity tends to grant conservatives a monopoly
>> on appeals to self-interest, enabling the conservatives to depict
>> progressives as pie-in-the-sky idealists and themselves as real-world
>> back-pocket pragmatists.
>>
>> What does "back-pocket" mean here?
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