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Originally from Timon of Athens, I think:
Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood?
To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;
But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.
To be in anger is impiety;
But who is man that is not angry?
Sleaze's example references the phrase "a shot fired in anger" - which is to say, a shot fired with intent to kill, and generally in a state of war. Therefore it is an alternative way of dating wars - not from their declaration to the signing of the peace treaty, but from the first shot fired in anger to the last shot fired in anger.
Therefore, it has come to mean something like "for real" or "with intent". Your boss is almost certainly misusing it, Ariadne. |
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