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Chris -- 2018-04-11
(on radio) They’re doing a gang-up job of it
It was a gang-up job against Obama and considering that, he won that debate against several adveraries at once.
www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/04/ … s_dem.html
I was reading Maureen Dowd’s article Two Against One, about the gang-up job the Clintons are doing on Obama leading up to the South Carolina primary,
miikagrady.com/?m=200801
I prefer to call it a Bill Maher type gang up job.
www.draysbay.com/2008/5/24/535289/pro-a … k-groups-d
I hesitate to call it an eggcorn because most seem to be using it to mean “an unfair treatment†rather than “a thorough and completely satisfactory job”. But it’s close.
A related one I’ve loved for years:
He did just a crack-up job.
A blend, I think, with a “crackerjack jobâ€.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2008-07-30 18:31:00)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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