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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This one is cute. All seem to be from the UK. I’d imagine that “drawer backs” are the kind of impediments you run into, say, when looking for a matching sock. The last example is most striking.
Location: London
Is there any drawer backs to Banshee, say in comparison to itunes?
(http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1280481)
UK Van review
Drawer backs-i have never in my life driven such a poor handling van and the fuel economy is poor
(http://www.screwfix.com/talk/thread.jspa?threadID=12601)
UK vacation advice
I have seen some fantastic small hotels which are right on the edge of the beach, sounds great but are there any drawer backs to this.
(http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g1 … lades.html)
Goats as pets
They don’t chase cars or the postman,never been known to attack the neighbours clildren.
Some drawer backs though, like walking on your car and eating stuff nobody in their right mind would eat.
(http://forums.goconnect.net/ubbcgi/post … e+of+a+dog)
Microwave oven advice
I dont see any drawerbacks really, mainly because our kitchen is small and until the lazy builder bothers to install the island we want, we are stuck
(snippet from www.handbag.com/forums/showthread.php?t=496848)
Fourteen genuine hits. See also “draw” for drawer (link 1 ; link 2 ; link 3)
Last edited by David Bird (2009-11-02 22:35:26)
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Impediment? Imagine where your socks would be if your drawers had no backs!
Could these UK writers be thinking of the seat section of a pair of drawers?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I have a hungry friend who, finding a cashew nut at the back of a drawer, began devouring it before realizing it was a tooth. Surely we all have at least one drawer containing semi-sacred junk that defies all but the most ruthless attempts at its disposal? I was about to reconnoitre one of my own, by way of illustration, but was beaten back by waves of nostalgia and nausea.
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Wouldn’t the lack of drawerbacks tend to result in cold buttocks? (Tom said cheekily.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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