Monday, March 21, 2011

What’s happening with Sunset? She’s been shanghai’ed (informal definition) by Shanghai Airlines.

shanghai |ˈ sh a ng ˌhī|verb ( -hais -haied |-ˌhīd|-haiing |-ˌhī-ing |) [ trans. historicalforce (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhanded means.• informal coerce or trick (someone) into a place or position or into doing something :Brady shanghaied her into his Jaguar and roared off.ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Shanghai .Shanghai |ˈ sh a ng ˈhī|a city on the eastern coast of China, a port on the estuary of the Yangtze River; pop. 7,780,000. Until World War II, Shanghai contained areas of British, French, and American settlement. It was the site in 1921 of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.

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