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Chris -- 2018-04-11
In this Major League Baseball video reporting Eric Bruntlett’s unassisted triple play. Quoting:
“and in one full swoop everything went Brad Lidge’s way.”
Lots of examples on the web:
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This seems like a good one to me, and I’m not sure why it’s never been posted. There’s a link to Ken Lakritz’ post on this from 2005 in Burred’s amazing roundup of “fell swoop” variations here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2104
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of course in my family the phrase we use is “one swell foop.”
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