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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Just got this in an email. I had never seen or (knowingly) heard it before.
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An interesting mixup. An idiom blend, clearly. But the phrase also wants to be an eggcorn.
Welcome to the forum, bww.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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