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Chris -- 2018-04-11
There are a lot of cases of in for and and vice versa. This one is special, for me.
vanessa still got them wait for her hand in foot lol.
Well, as I observed Mexican men and women graciously waiting on me hand in foot for meager wages in a Mexico resort, it brought me to realize
While they weren’t waiting on you hand in foot for, they did have to bust their butt to get your order together and ready.
teaching their children that the world and those in it aren’t here to wait on them hand in foot.
He will want to stay laid down for awhile…LET HIM, please wait on him hand in foot, he actually DOES NEED TO BE BABIED during this portion,
he maintained his unfriendly demeanor with us while waiting hand in foot on a business group in the corner.
Not sure why, but this feels similar to me to waiting on somebody “hat in hand”. It’s a funny picture, though.
Related, but not the same eggcorn (for me, anyway)
hand in foot disease
She enjoyed playing a card game from her youth called hand-in-foot.
they have been fighting hand in foot over this
(The last one may have been aiming at “hand to hand” or at “tooth and nail” or both.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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