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#1 2010-05-18 22:35:34

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

"rest ashore" for "rest assured"

“Rest ashore” must mean to stay comfortably on terra firma, rather than out and exposed to the billows of doubt.

Student politician stumping
You can rest ashore there will be no skeletons in his cupboard.

Somaliland news comment
If China says something they always deliver boys rest ashore it’s the Han people. Chinese people never break a promise I know them.

Newtons’ First Law
You might not like it because it comes from me, you might not like it because of the way I put it, but rest ashore; you obey this law all the time.

Standardized computing bean validation
But one can rest ashore if one is using the standard validation model, the odds increase dramatically.

See also be rest assured from 2006

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#2 2010-05-18 22:48:09

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: "rest ashore" for "rest assured"

Really common. A good one.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#3 2010-05-19 08:14:09

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2714
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Re: "rest ashore" for "rest assured"

Beautiful!


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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