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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I recall saying this one a lot as a child, and it always made sense to me. If you pinch someone hard enough, it should leave a pretty dark bruise, right? And bruises are black. Apparently pitch is too (and I knew a lot more about bruises than resin).
I suppose the connection is quite weak, but there was a time when it seemed pretty solid.
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we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Another variation of “pitch black.” See the earlier ones at http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2693
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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