kerflooey

Example Sentences

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“It’s like my cells went kerflooey last year when they met Covid,” she said, and the “vaccine said, ‘Wait, you dopes, that isn’t how you fight this, do it this way.’”

From New York Times

“It’s like my cells went kerflooey last year when they met COVID-19,” Gross said, and the “vaccine said, ‘Wait, you dopes, that isn’t how you fight this; do it this way.’”

From Seattle Times

The transversality condition is the constraint in the program that nothing can be projected to go to infinity—i.e., go kerflooey.

From BusinessWeek

It has to do with something that economists call the “transversality condition”—easier to remember if you think of it as the kerflooey problem.

From BusinessWeek

Another kind of model, called the macroeconomic equilibrium growth model, isn’t vulnerable to going kerflooey.

From BusinessWeek