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The polite word problems wear to a job interview.
means A problem, difficulty, or point of dispute, dressed up in a word that lets everyone avoid saying 'problem'.
from From Old French 'issue' meaning 'a way out, exit,' itself from the verb 'issir,' to go out, which traces back to Latin 'exire' (ex- 'out' + ire 'to go'). The word first meant a literal exit or outflow, then stretched to mean the 'outcome' or 'result' of something — and from there to the 'point in question' being argued over. The slide into 'personal problem' (as in 'she has issues') is a much later, 20th-century softening, borrowing the courtroom sense of a disputed point and turning it inward.
- origin
- from latin exire, to go out
- corporate use
- makes a crisis sound like a to-do item
- magazine sense
- also means one printed edition, confusingly
- plural form
- issues can mean baggage, no therapist required