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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“When all is said in done…”
“And when all is said in done in about five or ten years from now, you’ll probably see about a 30 percent decline in revenue for the recording industry,’ Goodman predicted.”
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/ecommerce/60050.html
“After all is said in done, according to the source, the process takes a long time and ‘nobody gets rich from this.’”
http://news.cnet.com/newsblog/?hhTest=1 … 22Kazaa%22
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Welcome, AlenK. Cool find.
The imagery shift on this one is less than clear to me. How is the saying “in” the doing? Once a thing is done, there’s no more to be said, so the “said” is comprehended in the “done”? Probably most who say or write this aren’t thinking anything nearly that complicated.
Not a prototypical eggcorn, though certainly a nice, entertaining error.
(Note also “set and done”, which has been reported elsewhere here.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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The meaning isn’t clear to me either, so more probably this is a mondegreen. Interesting nonetheless. :)
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