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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I heard this in the wild a few nights ago and it struck me that, although a mixed metaphor or an accidental collision of expressions, it is eggcornish in that it makes as much sense as the original. ‘A tough nut to swallow’ has 2,090 google hits but its counterpart, ‘a bitter pill to crack’ has, unsurprisingly, none.
That is a tough nut to swallow but swallow it we must if we are ever to find joy in a world that God loves but which is characterized by death in its …
gadfly.typepad.com/gadflys_muse/2006/06/some_sobering_t.html – 28k – Cached
However, the argument that belief is not central to Roman religion is a tough nut to swallow. Certainly any interactions with a deity have to come from some …
www.amazon.com/Literature-Religion-Rome … 0521551048 – 138k – Cached
be a tough nut to swallow and will upset many existing decision rules and. substantive policies, but will it be sufficient to trigger a major reform in EU …
www.iue.it/SPS/People/Faculty/CurrentPr … nalism.pdf
The spectacle of America in the year of its Bicentennial must be a tough nut to swallow up at West Point, the only place in America where lying is …
www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001976/Trusc … ott02.html – 59k – Cached
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