Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.
Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.
How about “smashed”, “hit with” and “under fire”?
I remember a recent commenter elsewhere refer to this as “playground speech”. I guess if you have the mental capacity of a gradeschooler then you can’t help but click on playground speech links. Clicks that inevitably seem to lead to a tiny narrow block of content down the middle of your wide screen, surrounded by miles of whitespace, lots of pictures, not much to read.