We saw at the time of the Iraq war what it means to be in the know and the games people play when they say they’re in the know. So in the lobby of the House of Commons before the Iraq-invasion vote you had whips saying to the MPs, ‘If you’d seen what I’ve seen, you’d know how to vote!’
--John le Carré
Open the Kimono [def.]: Share information. Reveal.
[syn.] Disclose your sexual organ to the wolf.
[usage note] The douchebag who said this probably also said Baxtrapolate.
[Source] Unsuck It: http://unsuck-it.com/open-the-kimono/
The (by now ritualistic) debate surrounding machine translation (MT) at present tends to go a little like this:
