Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
ROPERY
Etymology
Noun
ropery (countable and uncountable, plural roperies)
(obsolete) Any form of language used, typically slang or slander, that can get one in trouble.
A place where ropes are made; ropewalk.
Source: Wiktionary
Rop"er*y, n.
1. A place where ropes are made.
2. Tricks deserving the halter; roguery. [Obs.] "Saucy merchant . . . so full of his ropery." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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