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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The original is opaque and the eggcorn makes sense. About 40 ghits. Examples:
Thankfully, just like He always does, God comes through in the crunch.
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Tacoma deputy comes through in the crunch . TACOMA The case of the— runaway station wagon came to an abrupt conclusion on a Tacoma area street …
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A “crunch” award is given to any employee who steps up and comes through in the “crunch” by doing extra work at a time of need.
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We can be the supplier that comes through in the crunch, or the customer that awards a big contract to a reliable and supportive supplier …
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The Elegant Envelope always comes through in the crunch, with high quality, efficiently delivered results …
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Their bar food definitely comes through in the crunch. We came here after a day long bender at the Giants game and the burgers were just what we needed …
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This one is not a good eggcorn for me, because (1) the lexical and syntactic pieces to construct it as an independent phrase are readily available: crunch meaning ‘a (metaphorically) tight or difficult place’, in the crunch , and come through PrepPhrase (along with other relevant patterns) are all established as part of the English language for many of us at least. (2) Crunch and clutch are not all that close phonologically or orthographically.
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Nevertheless, I would not at all deny that the existence, and relative opacity, of “come through in the clutch†is likely to have exerted some influence in people’s forming of the other phrase, and some may have thought the new phrase was the same as what they remembered of the older one (assuming the clutch version actually was historically prior). To the extent that happened, sure, it’s eggcornish. And the two words do share the phonological pattern kLÉ™(n)tʃ (where L means “liquidâ€) and the orthographic pattern cCu(n)ch , so the signifiants are indeed much closer than chance.
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“Come through in the crutch†also occurs, btw. I can get a (lame but) possible eggcornish meaning out of it, but there are not many examples and I wonder if it’s standard for anybody.
Crutchfield Coming Through in the Crutch. Crutchfield offers a very solid back office that takes care of its customers… RATING: Full Star Half Star Empty …
(That one seems like purposeful wordplay, so isn’t worth much. But not worth nothing either—the wordplay might overlie “clutch†or an assumedly-standard “crutchâ€.)
Moonlight Mile (2002) – IMDb user comments – [ Traducir esta página ] But, when asked to shine, Jake Gyllenhaal comes through in the crutch. There’s a personal feeling to the movie that goes beyond what happened to Brad …
Redskins Insider – B-Lloyd = Ade Jimoh?/TCCLs (All Hail The Nuge) – [ Traducir esta página ] 23 Aug 2008 … At wild receiver, none of the receivers the Redskims picked after a few draughts have come through in the crutch. Marvin Kelly had to have …
(Redskims sounds like there’s bloody foam on the water or something …)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-01-17 21:50:58)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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