use in anger
verbEtymology
By extension, from fire in anger.
Definitions
Used for its intended purpose, as opposed to e.g. practice or testing
- The key element that has yet to be used in anger is the payment calculation function of the operating system.
- Just having a play before I use in anger
- Outside of testing when first built I doubt those protections have ever actually been used in anger!
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for use in anger. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA