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Chris -- 2025-05-10
On Twitter today some mad capitalizer banging on about Corbyn: “He is a socialist this is what they do,and young people fall For It hotline and Centre, all these people want is free stuff”. Brilliant!
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Explain it a bit. I suppose you are offering it as eggcorned from “hook, line and sinkerâ€. How does the (or, a) hotline or the centre fit in to the meaning? It is certainly a striking and complex malapropism, but not so clearly an eggcorn if it doesn’t make sense.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Well, in the sense that “hook, line and sinker” implies something like swallowing the whole system, “hotline and centre” might be describing the full C2B spectrum of the telesales ecosystem – from hotline to call-centre. Possibly mutating out of…
Love how the guy corrected himself further down the tweet’s thread: “Hookline and centre,,, lol”.
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