Write It Right: Proposition for Proposal

“Proposition for Proposal. ‘He made a proposition.” In current slang almost anything is a proposition. A difficult enterprise is a ‘tough proposition,’ an agile wrestler, ‘a slippery proposition,’ and so forth.”

Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.