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Chris -- 2018-04-11
We’ve already seen ‘take the grunt of.’ This one is surprisingly common- 9,000 ghits- and is probably influenced by ‘blunt object’ and ‘blunt injury.’
We are going to open up a new account (in her name) at a different bank so she doesn’t have to take the blunt of my error’s anymore, ...
www.canadian-money-advisor.ca/threadvie … 047/4.html
However, I am tired of the middle class citizens having to take the blunt of the budget.
blog.timesunion.com/capitol/.../education-lobby-targets-senators/
Basketball is the only sport where a single player can take the blunt of the criticism for a TEAMS production regardless of their efforts.
blogs.chron.com/jeromesolomon/2010/.../chris_paul_isnt_a_baseball_pla.html
As is usually the case, the politicians will walk away unscathed, while you and others will take the blunt of their spending mistakes.
www.kingsfans.com/forums/showthread.php?37959-The-11th
In the event of a hurricane, the mangrove ecosystem would take the blunt of the hit …
jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/.../EvolutionaryAdaptationsof.html
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Some relevant discussion
here , including “bear the bluntâ€. This was, if I remember right, the first time the (quite useful, I think) idea of a “large fuzzy spot†was bruted/bruited/blunted/brunted about.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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This was, if I remember right, the first time the (quite useful, I think) idea of a “large fuzzy spot†was bruted/bruited/blunted/brunted about.
I think the fuzzy/messy discussion made its first appearance in Kem’s “b-line” thread: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3029
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I stand (or sit) corrected.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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