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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I found this in a fitness magazine, by someone who visits a gym in India:
“As with many places here, the name “gym” is used with a cavalier abandon that would be taken as misappropriation under the auspices of any trades description act. The antiquated contraptions that populate some of these places beg relief.”
I think this must be an eggcorn for beggar belief, unless there is some other meaning that I haven’t grasped.
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