{"id":347,"date":"2008-09-19T17:27:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T06:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=347"},"modified":"2008-11-10T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T03:07:11","slug":"four-eyed-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Four-eyed meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a repost of a thread<\/a> that I started in the Low Yat forums:<\/p>\n

Amidst all of the political mess that’s been going on, I’ve noticed the phrase “four-eyed meeting” being used again and again, especially in The Star.<\/p>\n

1st Example<\/a>
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PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had a four-eyed meeting with his deputy Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak for more than four hours to discuss the country\u2019s present political situation, including the Umno transition plan.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

2nd Example<\/a><\/p>\n

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KOTA BARU: Terengganu PAS commissioner Datuk Mustafa Ali has mended the rift between him and party spiritual adviser Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat during a four-eyed meeting at the Mentri Besar\u2019s official residence.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n


\nObviously it means a serious, one-to-one, discussion, but I’ve never seen the phrase used in this way before. A quick Google search indicates that it’s only been used by Malaysians in this way and only fairly recently at that. So, what gives and where did this come from?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a repost of a thread that I started in the Low Yat forums: Amidst all of the political mess that’s been going on, I’ve noticed the phrase “four-eyed meeting” being used again and again, especially in The Star. 1st Example PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had a four-eyed meeting with … Continue reading Four-eyed meetings<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[102,78,37],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","tag-english-language","tag-funny","tag-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}