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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Heard on TV from an interviewee telling us the “unpolished” truth instead of the “unvarnished” truth.
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“Unvanished truth” is more like an eggcorn than “Unpolished truth” , which reworks the metaphor rather than the word, is. But “unvanished” is an easy typo too.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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