kerflooey
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“He thought when everything went kerflooey, this is where he would go. The island itself is so beautiful. There’s an area called Chieftain’s Leap, with soaring cliffs, where peregrine falcons make their nests.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
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 ● Jan. 7, 2015
The transversality condition is the constraint in the program that nothing can be projected to go to infinity—i.e., go kerflooey.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 7, 2015
As an ill-fated staging of “A Christmas Carol” tucked into Seattle Repertory Theatre’s holiday farce “Inspecting Carol” goes kerflooey, the laughs multiply.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2012
Sell 7.8 million cars, as Toyota did worldwide in 2009 — a horrible year for the industry — and there are billions of new parts with the potential to go kerflooey.
From Time ● Feb. 11, 2010
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