Talk:cape for
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All the citations of the "defend or praise" sense at cape are of cape for, which we also have an entry on. I initially consolidated it to cape for with a {{phrasal verb}} pointer at cape, but then wondered: is it attested without for (Google finds 7 non-durable hits for "caping on behalf of"), or even if not, would anyone like to argue the for is not part of the "headword"? Pinging the creator of the sense at cape, the diligent @WordyAndNerdy, for input. Whichever page content is merged on, there's some etymological information at cape for (which took me quite a bit of digging to figure out, at the time—I initially thought it might be from the doer of the verb "following someone around like a cape") which can be preserved. - -sche (discuss) 04:01, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- I've encountered "caping X" in the wild (for example, search for "caping Trump/Biden/Putin/etc." on Twitter), but I don't recall finding viable citations without "for." So I'm fine with merging the entries. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 21:54, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
- As an aside, the inspiration behind this phrase was instantly clear to me, which why I find it an especially clever coinage. It created this vivid mental image of someone acting as a caped superhero to defend whatever criticism-deserving person or thing was being discussed. But, of course, everyone approaches language from a different perspective, and what's clear to one may be obscure to another. There's certainly plenty of idiomatic phrases with origins that confound me – most sports-related ones, for instance. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 22:08, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
- Merged into cape for. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 22:47, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
- As an aside, the inspiration behind this phrase was instantly clear to me, which why I find it an especially clever coinage. It created this vivid mental image of someone acting as a caped superhero to defend whatever criticism-deserving person or thing was being discussed. But, of course, everyone approaches language from a different perspective, and what's clear to one may be obscure to another. There's certainly plenty of idiomatic phrases with origins that confound me – most sports-related ones, for instance. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 22:08, 7 August 2020 (UTC)