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The art of telling a higher power your loss was a clerical error.
means To make an earnest request for help, sympathy, or a reversal — or, in law, to ask a higher court to review and overturn a lower court's decision.
from From Latin 'appellare,' to address, call upon, or accuse — itself related to 'pellere,' to drive or push. The sense of literally 'driving a complaint toward someone' came through Old French 'apeler' into English in the legal vein first: to call out for a higher judgment. The everyday meaning — something that 'appeals' to you, that calls to your liking — bloomed later from the same root, the idea of a thing reaching out and summoning your favor.
- legal odds
- Most appeals lose; courts favor the original verdict
- sex appeal
- Coined in the 1900s, marketing's favorite invisible product
- root
- From Latin appellare, to address or call upon
- final boss
- Supreme Court hears under 1% of appeals filed
dreyfus affair appeals — french military officer's 1906 appeal overturning his wrongful conviction
brexit appeal referendum — 2016 uk public appeal vote to leave the european union