SHREDDER FOR THE RULE BOOK

English translation: breaks all the rules

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English term or phrase:SHREDDER FOR THE RULE BOOK
Selected answer:breaks all the rules

13:40 Jun 5, 2019
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English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Marketing - Automotive / Cars & Trucks
English term or phrase: SHREDDER FOR THE RULE BOOK
''SHREDDER FOR THE RULE BOOK '' in

Harley-Davidson

A shredder for the rule book.

The 2016 #Iron883 is a machine that kicks serious asphalt


https://twitter.com/harleydavidson/status/636946309199495168
Ebrahim Mohammed
Germany
Local time: 11:09
breaks all the rules
Explanation:
It puts the rule book in the shredding machine - i.e. destroys (breaks) all the rules. Very unconventional.
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Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 11:09
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4 +4rips/tears up the rule book
Jennifer Caisley
4 +4breaks all the rules
Mark Nathan


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
shredder for the rule book
rips/tears up the rule book


Explanation:
I believe this is a play on the idiom of 'tearing up/ripping up the rule book', i.e. doing things differently from in the past.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rip-tear...
"to do something in a way that is very different to the way in which it is usually done or has been done in the past"

In this case, it's saying that this motorcycle is fresh, new, different from what's come before etc.

Jennifer Caisley
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
10 mins
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agree  Mark Robertson
14 mins
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agree  Tina Vonhof (X)
50 mins
  -> Thank you, Tina!

agree  Didier Declercq (X): I'd choose "rips up".
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, Didier - I agree, "rips up" is what I would naturally go for!
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
shredder for the rule book
breaks all the rules


Explanation:
It puts the rule book in the shredding machine - i.e. destroys (breaks) all the rules. Very unconventional.

Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 11:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
9 mins

agree  Tina Vonhof (X)
50 mins

agree  Hassan Lotfy
1 day 9 mins

agree  Daryo: or ignores all the rules
2 days 17 hrs
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