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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Confirmation of one of the forum’s chestnuts1, “mano-a-mano” as man-to-man (link), from CBC Radio this morning in a discussion on the robust Canadian dollar:
”...we can compete mano-a-mano, womano-a-womano if you will, with the United States, with the currency at par.” (The House, CBC 1)
[1] And there’s no chest in chestnut: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3929
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