Discussions about eggcorns and related topics
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Chris -- 2011-03-08
Appears to be a common eggcorn, with 6k+ Ghits.
Most likely a confusion with “give a lot of slack” by those who no longer understand the word “flak”.
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This one has come up before and can be found on the e-scrolls here and here. It’s a bit hard to explain. Onomatopoeic? Sublidiomatic? Vanilla malaprop?
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No, it’s a blidiom, of course. But not the eggcorn kind. Here’re some counterparts.
She’s not the sort of girl to get into trouble, but she does jump in to defend others and leaves herself open to pick up the flak.
http://www.mduk.org/index.php?topic=1665.5;wap2
By the way, you’re not the only one to cut me some flack for throwing that one in there.
http://www.coderanch.com/t/178551/java- … es-boolean
You know, who’s going to take up the flack? We really desperately need to have a continuum of marketing efforts.
http://www.winexmagazine.com/winexaus/issueone/hs1.htm
Finally, from a list of “Pinoy booboos”.
Can’t you just cut me some slacks?
http://www.kwelangpinoy.com/tag/funny/
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