Talk:bust the dust

RFV discussion: July 2015–April 2016

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bust the dust

I'm sure I've seen dustbust used as a verb, but I've never seen bust the dust, which also doesn't appear on google that I can find. (aside from dusting the bust in a SOP way). I call shenanigans! 50.195.84.65 15:42, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

• What I found was [this], [this], [this], and [this]. Kiwima (talk) 00:46, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

• And this and this. We do have an entry for dust buster, which originated as the brand name of a vacuum cleaner made by Black & Decker. -- · (talk) 22:27, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

• Of the six links Kiwima and Talking Point provided, this one doesn't have anything to do with vacuum cleaners. Neither does this one or this one. This is a poem that doesn't make it clear it's referring to a vacuum cleaner. This is the only clearly valid use, and I'm not sure it's durably archived -- even if it is, I'm not really sure it should count: it looks an awful lot like an ad for one vacuum. So that's at best two tenuous cites for the given def. WurdSnatcher (talk) 17:46, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

• The first one you link most certainly does refer to vacuum cleaners: "Heavy-duty vacuum and drop cloths. The latter protect your rugs, carpets and furnishings, while the former busts the dust produced by sweeping." (my emphasis). Anyway, I've modified the def so that it is not explicitly vacuum cleaners any more. Which means we can now count this one as well: "Use a paintbrush to bust the dust", from Boys' Life. SpinningSpark 23:09, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure it's idiomatic, but it does seem to be attested, per the above discussion (although the citations haven't been added to the entry...). RFV-passed. - -sche (discuss) 18:25, 17 April 2016 (UTC)