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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Only one example, but it’s quite striking.
“Clearly not true as the Mail tries to launch moral panics about twice a week, normally they die without trace. This one had legs as it struck a draw nerve with the public fed up with the likes of Brand and Ross who think they have the right to insult who they want.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree … athan-ross
This seems to be, at least potentially, a pun with legs: a google search gives a couple of UK football headlines and not much else. For example http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-80529777.html
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Is the imagery something like “a tightly stretched (drawn) nerve� I’m not sure I get it.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Actually I think it’s draw==tie we’ve got here. It’s certainly weird, but clearly it works for the football section subeditors. In soccer, a draw is an unsuccessful and unclear outcome that can trigger dissatisfaction on both sides.
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