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Chris -- 2018-04-11
What is the best cause of action to take if you feel like you are not valued at your place of work?
As your eyecare professional we can detect Glaucoma at its early stages and advise you on the best cause of action
If a member of your team falls sick mid-trek, and you are rather far from the closest amenity, what is the best cause of action to ensure the safety of the individual as well as the team?
when your pain reaches those higher levels, finding something to take your mind off it might actually be a better cause of
action. But mindfulness helps.
It seems reasonably widespread.
There is a valid legal term “cause of action†that is probably being used in many cases where this error might be suspected: it means “fact(s) that would enable/justify you bringing an action against somebody elseâ€.
It is eggcorny if people are thinking “the best way to get you doing something usefulâ€, “the considerations most likely to get you off your duffâ€, “the desired outcome/purpose most likely to get you to act in the most helpful wayâ€, or something of the sort.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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The context makes the eggcorn. I suspect “cause” and “course” are widely substituted. There are a number of examples of “par for the cause” in place of “par for the course,” as in this:
HuffPost blog: “As the child of alcoholic parents, it was par for the cause that I would be drawn to the stuff myself, at toxic levelsâ€
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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