2 December 2012

flummox

[fluhm-uh ks]

verb (used with object), Informal.

– to bewilder; confound; confuse.

Example:

‘The lecturer’s rambling presentation, which jumped from one apparently irrelevant notion to the next, left the class flummoxed’.

Today’s aphorism

‘Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house’.

– Alfred Hitchcock

On this day

2 December – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.

2 December 1972 – death of Yip Man, Wing Chun Kung Fu grand-master. Immortalised in the movie, Ip Man. Born 1 October 1893.