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Chris -- 2018-04-11
More fall him for getting into so many scrapes and situations throughout his career.
If someone buys it with whats available, more fall them.
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“More fall them” is surprisingly common.
At least one example of play me for a fall. (i won’t let melancholy play me for a fall.)
Many examples of “fall around with” for “fool around with.” Google search.
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Until I read closely, I thought your first hit was an eggcorn for the verb fault. I wonder whether fool, fall, full, fault, and maybe foul are a mix-n-match collection.
“And whose fall is that, moron?” he said angrily before storming to his room.
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So, whose fall is that? It is an outrage, a national outrage and a tragedy for you to scoop this low
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Whadda y’all make of this: moreful. Is it something like too much, over the top, characteristic maybe? A cousin of awful?
I still attend the event each year (I guess moreful me) but just think it is a shame the guest limit is not capped as much.
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Also, there were no usb/firewire cables in the box. I didnt really expect there to be, but for an expensive bit of kit I hoped that maybe there would be. Moreful me!
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Not sure of the Tarantino feel, as I am not sure of his ‘style’ . . . moreful me I hear you cry!
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And still to this very day girls complain about boys when they go for the bellends instead of the decent lads.. Moreful you
that poor dog, egged on then told not to bite…...................moreful you when he attacks someone let alone a child!
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Moreful. Makes sense. More full of it.
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Maybe related to mournful? But I would pronounce the “ful” in mournful very differently than the “fool” in “more fool I”. There must be regional pronunciations where full and fool are homonyms?
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Google sleuthing shows the hits are from UK, UK, Italy, UK, and UK.Maybe Peter or Juani can help us out here next time they’re through.
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Nothing terribly eggcornish about it (though it certainly shows a semantic restructuring that apparently made sense), but the case markings on this phrase are noteworthy. I think (without researching it: so I am a perp if wrong on this) that the standard or original form would be something like “more fool heâ€, i.e. ‘he is (shown to be) a greater fool’, and similarly “more fool(s) we/I/she/theyâ€, but for a lot of people it apparently feels right to say “more fool him (/us/me/her/them)â€, i.e. (I think) “somebody has (is shown to have) fooled him (/me/etc.) more, made him (/me/etc.) a greater foolâ€. Falling (or being befallen) into foolery one way or another, I suppose.
(This is of course but one of many restructurings of this sort, going both ways but most often changing a subject [nominative] construal to an object [accusative or dative] construal.)
*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 wouldn’t say that fall full and fool were homonymous but they are perhaps closer in British RP than in other pronunciations; in fast connected speech:
More fool you
More full you
More fall you
come out fairly close to each other. Speaking for myself.
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