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#1 2013-01-24 20:55:47

burred
Eggcornista
From: Montreal
Registered: 2008-03-17
Posts: 1112

"heart act" for heart attack

On another post today: I heard you had a clap lung, and you also had a heartact. The final act, presumably.

FIRST I WAS LIKE I THINK I AM DREAMING I COULD NOT BREATH FOR LIKE 10 SECS I SWEAR I AM SURPRISED I AM STILL ALIVE I NEARLY HAD A HEART ACT
Enthusiastic youtube comment

bethhodgkinsonn just nearly had a heart act no thanks to @jeshodgkinson
tweet

Soo i just went u profile and NEARLY had a heart act by ur song tht played!
chat

Wow ur dad is going to have a heart act.
fanfic

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#2 2013-01-25 06:00:12

JuanTwoThree
Eggcornista
From: Spain
Registered: 2009-08-15
Posts: 455

Re: "heart act" for heart attack

I’m on shaky ground but I think it might be a round-tripper:

Israel communicated that closing the strait was an attack of war

I consider 9/11 to be an absolute attack of war by OBL

Yes, how to prove to are dieing from a disease caused by an attack of war

They should be tried by military law as it was an attack of war

Today, the world and the region are facing an attack of defiance

I can’t prove it but I think these at least echo the fixed expressions with “act of ….....”


On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.

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#3 2013-01-25 06:33:03

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

Re: "heart act" for heart attack

Amazing. I’m a believer. These are not commoner gardener eggcorns. They bear the mark of a metathetical gremlin in the grey room, a germinal mingler.

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