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#1 2009-08-25 07:30:37

will
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"one full swoop" for "one fell swoop"

In this Major League Baseball video reporting Eric Bruntlett’s unassisted triple play. Quoting:

“and in one full swoop everything went Brad Lidge’s way.”

Lots of examples on the web:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22one+full+swoop%22

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#2 2009-08-25 12:35:27

patschwieterman
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Re: "one full swoop" for "one fell swoop"

This seems like a good one to me, and I’m not sure why it’s never been posted. There’s a link to Ken Lakritz’ post on this from 2005 in Burred’s amazing roundup of “fell swoop” variations here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2104

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#3 2009-08-27 00:32:08

Craig C Clarke
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Re: "one full swoop" for "one fell swoop"

of course in my family the phrase we use is “one swell foop.”

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