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Expression: "Suffer the jerks of buses" #1 (permalink) Mon Jul 17, 2006 16:35 pm   Expression: "Suffer the jerks of buses"
 

Hello everybody

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Since she did not want to suffer the jerks of buses, she took a (comfortable)taxi.

Do you find this expression correct and appropriate? Are there better substitutes?

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Expression: "Suffer the jerks of buses" #2 (permalink) Mon Jul 17, 2006 22:24 pm   Expression: "Suffer the jerks of buses"
 

Hey Amy

I am pretty sure you did not like the question. Shocked

Well, how right I am?

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Expression: "Suffer the jerks of buses" #3 (permalink) Mon Jul 17, 2006 22:47 pm   Expression: "Suffer the jerks of buses"
 

Cool

Well, Tom, I can understand someone not wanting to suffer jerks, but what exactly do you want to describe in the sentence? Just a generally bumpy ride on a bus? Lots of lurching stops before reaching the destination? (Obviously the woman in the sentence is not thinking about the delights of a NY cab, otherwise she'd have probably stuck with the bus.Cool)

Is that your own sentence? Or did you read it somewhere?
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Expression: "Suffer the jerks of buses" #4 (permalink) Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:06 am   Expression: "Suffer the jerks of buses"
 

Tom wrote:
Hello everybody

Please see below:

Since she did not want to suffer the jerks of buses, she took a (comfortable)taxi.

Do you find this expression correct and appropriate? Are there better substitutes?

Tom

Hi Tom
It's typical for buses when they are old and out of fix Very Happy
Uneven road can be the reason of jerks either Very Happy
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Jerks #5 (permalink) Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:19 am   Jerks
 

Hi Tom,

Your phrase
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suffer the jerks of buses
definitely sounds a bit strange. As a verb suffer often has a very strong emotional flavour as in suffer hardship/grief/loss and jerk has the idea of sudden (often accidental) movement as in jerk someone's elbow when they are trying to write something.

I'd be happier with put up with the jolts on buses. Put up with is more down to earth and suggests tolerate and jolts are the sudden movements you feel when you are riding over a bump/hole in the road.

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