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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This substitution would be a mere malapropism were it not that limpets inhabit pools. Examples:
If anyone asked me my perfect woman, I’d say a red head with high cheekbones and limpet pool eyes that just make you melt…
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...and the seagull droppings flecking his wild mane of hair shone like doubloons in the moonlight of his limpet pool eyes.
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MY THERAPY | Abuse Recovery…I am the rock in the limpet pool of light.
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Love Antonio Badass’s limpet-pool eyes, voice and most everything else …
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An ever-blossoming limpet pool. I wait on its shores, listening to the droplets creating ripples on its surface.
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Ah, a little beaut Ken, but I must admit to being puzzled that anyone could find an eye rimmed by calcareous excrescences even vaguely attractive.
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And of course:
“myriad fragments of oystershells, mussels and limpids”.
“Forage for sea food (mussels, fish, limpids, leaves, roots)”
“Snails limpids abalony and fish”
“We have mussels, anenamys (excuse spelling) pery winkles and limpids”
Mind you, ‘limpet pool’ meaning ‘rock pool’ works in a way that ‘mussels and limpids’ doesn’t.
Numerous hits for “limpid mines” also suggest the eggcornlessness of the switch round.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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Yeah, this one’s a toughie because it can make some sense, but as JuanTwoThree pointed out the probability of misspelling is high.
Limpets can live many places in the intertidal zone—and beyond—but they do like tranquil tidal pools because they find a dependable source of algae there. And such pools tend to be fairly “limpid”—so in marine environments, at least, limpet pools are often limpid pools. If people are using “limpid pool” as a metaphor for tranquility and peacefulness, the “limpet” substitution works pretty well. But as Peter noted, when the goal of the metaphor is to highlight the beauty of someone’s eyes, “limpet pools” becomes grotesque enough that one would prefer to find out that it was a misspelling.
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