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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A sequel to ‘blimp…’ About 150 ghits, e.g.:
“It’s just that the things that would have bothered me ten years ago wouldn’t be a blink on the radar screen now.”
books.google.com/books?isbn=059530091X
“Ten years ago, India didn’t register a blink on the radar of western companies.
www.tata.com/tcs/media/20050805.htm
If you take the ratio of successful installations to problems, these are only a blink on the radar screen.
www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/023/RipOff0023031.htm
I don’t think that the past 100 years of data is even a blink on the radar.
www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2 … rming.html
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Maybe I’m too accepting, but blink makes eggcorn sense to me. It’s as brief as possible of a moment to notice something.
Not to start an endless merry-go-round, but I did find 1 hit for “mere blink on the radar”. I think the occurance helps point the way back to its origin of “mere blip”.
Last edited by booboo (2008-01-04 23:20:01)
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