Najib ‘ducks the shoe’ in Perak

Before Najib ducks the shoe by steering clear of Perak, angry protestors make do with a poster instead.

Since the lightning overthrow of the Perak state government a recurrent theme in online and offline comments has been the issue of physical and metaphorical shoes to be lobbed at the wrongful parties.

So, with that in mind, and in light of Najib’s decision to stay out of Perak due to the upset and protests he has caused, allow me to introduce a contemporary neologism – “ducking the shoe”, coined by Daniel Fienberg:

New Phrase: Ducking the Shoe (or Duck the Shoe)

Part of Speech: Either a verb or a gerundive of some sort

Definition: Escaping even the most minor of punishments for extended errors or catastrophic misdeeds.

Used in a Sentence: [Despite orchestrating the usurpation of the Perak government, Najib Razak ducked the shoe by avoiding visits to the state in the aftermath.]

Origin and Linguistic Evolution: [In December 2008], a certain president of a Western Superpower with rather dramatically low approval ratings in his native land had a shoe whipped at him by a reporter from a country he supposedly liberated. Said lame duck president successfully evaded said shoe, just as he also evaded an electoral challenge four years earlier, an ill-ingested preztel and any sort of censure from the legal bodies in his home nation.