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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I ran across one of these in the wild and wasn’t sure if it might just be a typo, but I’m finding enough to think it might be a jamming together of curtail and contain:
If the perpetrators can not be caught, we can at least curtain their efforts.
Perhaps this will also curtain my spending, as well. Less purchases = less returns.
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Beautiful. It’s a smooth blend that also works as a striking eggcorn.
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Restrain may well be in the blend too. Yes, it is a fine blend, and it does allow an eggcornish reading besides.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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