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The pursuit that predates lunch, war, and most of your personality.
means To search determinedly for something—prey, a job, your keys—by actively chasing it down rather than waiting for it to appear.
from From Old English huntian, rooted deep in the Germanic family tree alongside words for 'seizing' or 'capturing.' It's one of the oldest verbs in the language's inventory, which makes sense — people were chasing dinner long before they had grammar to describe it.
- oldest technology
- Hunting predates fire by hundreds of thousands of years
- job title fossil
- Surnames like Hunter started as literal CVs
- corporate reuse
- Headhunting borrows the exact same predatory metaphor
- false comfort
- Treasure hunts promise reward; most hunts just promise effort