Poisoning the Well
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We all know someone who does this. It’s basically when someone gives you their negative opinion on someone or something before you have a chance to make your own impression of them. Their opinion ends up tainting yours when you do eventually make one because it has been poisoned by their assessment. Often, their negative opinion is a lie used to discredit anything else they say. Politicians use this on their competitors.
It’s useful for us when you don’t want one of your friends to get too close to someone that you hang out with but don’t really like too well. For example, if you want to warn someone of a person’s ability to take their conversations away with them (they talk too much). That way, they know not to get too involved with any topic with them unless they want to spend way too long hearing about it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
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Interesting…
“. . .when you don’t want one of your friends to get too close to someone that you hang out with but don’t really like too well.”
Are you saying you don’t like the friend too well, or the person you hang out with?
I think people would even give a negative opinion on someone they do like because they don’t want another person “stealing them away.”
I meant that you don’t like the other person that you were introducing the friend to. It could be used in many different ways though.
I think if a person doesn’t want someone stolen from them, they’d probably poison the well after they see that someone else has a new interest in their friend.
This is so confusing.