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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A wonderful combination of eggcorn and mixed metaphor from the NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/busin … necon.html)
“Spain’s banks already have enough problems, but the exposure to Portugal could just turn into the wild cart which upturns the whole apple cart,” said Edward Hugh, an independent economist based in Barcelona.
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You give economists cart blanch (or the yellow cart) and what do you expect?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I love the imagery of the wild cart crashing into the apple cart.
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