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Chris -- 2018-04-11
from a student paper:
”...may give people the impression that they are snooty or of upper crest”
The crest is on top of the wave, so perhaps the student reinterpreted this metaphor.
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Cute eggcorn, thanks yEvbO. It looks real, though quite rare. Here’s another attestation from a very convinced perp on Yahoo questions:
Grammarians, help me out: “upper crest” vs. “upper crust”?
I’m currently involved in a conversation about word and phrase origins, and I pointed out that “upper crust,” though in common usage, is wrong, and that it is a corruption of the correct term, which is “upper crest.” Sadly, I can not find a reference to cite. I do recall reading about this somewhere or other, but I can’t recall where I read it. Am I imagining things?
One answer: I’ve always heard “upper crust”. Neither one makes a lot of sense to me, though!
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 318AAQARN9
I found one other, referring to a dance craze in Paris.
As Upper crest society got bored, many of these gangsters found good money in hiring out their dance services for the bored female aristocrats
http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3aposh.htm
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Brings to mind the excellent (and already reported , by Ken, unsurprisingly) chestfallen .
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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another from google:
Road To The BCS: The Upper Crest Will Be Challenged Today
http://www.mwcconnection.com/2010/9/25/ … nged-today
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