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Chris -- 2025-05-10
As a metaphor for preparing to fight, this makes about as much sense as the original. About 60 ghits:
Why do you not gird your lions with the truth of the Bible, instead of clinging to the teachings of your fellow brothers …
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And he preached the entire sermon about what it meant to gird your lions. www.fpcjackson.org/resources/sermons/ exodus/Exodus%20Vol%201%20&%
Gird Your lions like a warrior, and I will ask you when I laid the earth’s foundation? 64.235.229.86/forum/showthread. php?t=229&page=5&pp=15
As we head to the finish line, gird your lions for a few surprises.
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I want to go to the Central Park Zoo with you guys again. If I can’t visit the lions of Venice, I’ll check out those of Fifth Avenue. So gird your lions.
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Gird your lions with truth – Walk in truth.
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You have to gird your lions, take a deep breath and hope to God they left a note.
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I’m about to gird my lions and finish cleaning out a bed that I got top soil into …
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It was my religious beliefs that gave me guilt over the sexual act and kept me chaste, I learned how to gird my lions, encircle the groin, ...
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Well, this is a fun one! The other use of lion vs. loin is in recipes or ads for meat! Doesn’t this sound tasty?
Beef Tenderlion with Gorgonzola-Nut Butter
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tenderlion
When I was a kid, my brother and I were at a drive-in (not -thru, mind you) restaurant, and on the menu was a tenderloin sandwich. I told him they had tenderlion on the menu (I know better), and he said, “Really?!” I’m proud to say he was the older brother and I the younger. And I grew up going to Sunday school, so “girding one’s lions” is an irresistible transposition of two letters.
I don’t know if this would qualify as an eggcorn, though, would it? It seems to be instead a persistant (and understandable) misspelling rather than something a person might actually say.
Feeling quite combobulated.
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