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It has been used as an idiom to mean stopping or restarting something (the former in this case) for decades: https://wordspy.com/words/ctrl-alt-delete/ https://
by viccis 9mo ago
It has been used as an idiom to mean stopping or restarting something (the former in this case) for decades: https://wordspy.com/words/ctrl-alt-delete/ https://wordspy.com/words/ctrl-alt-delete/
I think it's because most people associate Ctrl-Alt-Del with the process of terminating a process, so they use the key sequence itself to refer to the act of terminating something.
- crazygringo 9mo agoIt means restart. It has never meant stop. Even the link you provide says: > n. A metaphoric mechanism with which one can reset, restart, or rethink something. That's what's confusing. The headline makes no sense because it's not about restarting.
- viccis 9mo agoThe first example: >It's time to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete on the computerized Bowl Championship Series. Or should we now call it the Bowl Split-Championship Series?