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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Is it ‘take a running jump’ or ‘take a run and jump’? I’ve always thought it was the first but don’t know if I’ve ever seen it written down. The first one is what’s in the online dictionaries so I suppose that’s the original, though the second makes as much sense and has its fair share of hits on Google. Enough to make it a variation and not unstandard?
I looked at ‘a stand and start’ (which also makes sense in the context of a race) but there are too many examples of ‘take/make a stand and start -ing’
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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Substitutions and mishearings of and abound in the archives. Other than the and << >> in/en substitutions collected in the database, there are
spontaneous addition:
stock and trade
once and a while
case and point
D and A test
beat and track
lack toast and tolerant
tongue and cheek
every once and a while
commander and chief
and a delightful new one for me: Sir Arthur Cohen and Doyle
magicked away:
loan/lone behold
beckon/beacon/beckoned call
front in center
land of milking honey
hewing cry
Suggested by your post:
My in laws have a pond and Remmington, our GP border collie mix, took a fly and leap into the pond
http://www.greatdogsite.com/breed-qa/an … r_or_5567/
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