Is duck-typing misnamed?
Ben Finney
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Sun Aug 28 20:34:50 EDT 2016
Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> writes:
> Umm no, she was actually a witch. Which makes the scene even funnier.
> "Fair caught," she says at the end.
She says [0] “It's a fair cop”, which is using the term “cop” to mean
the arrest or sentence, asserting that it's justified.
Hence, the British term “copper”, meaning a police officer: the one who
does the cop (the capture or arrest) for a crime.
<URL:http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/it%27s-a-fair-cop>
has quotations showing usage, as does
<URL:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fair_cop>.
[0] <URL:http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mphg/mphg.htm>
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