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Chris -- 2025-05-10
A promissory note is a legal instrument in which you express your explicit resolve to repay the amount lent. I think it’s reasonable to think of it as “a promise to be sorry†about defaulting – so sorry that you won’t let that happen . There are 28 unique ghits; some are jokes, many are embedded in a sentence in a foreign language – though the originals of a few very good candidates weren’t accessible for inclusion here. Examples:
I made him sign a promise sorry note; to repay the debt, andhe did sign it.
http://www.womansavers.com/forum-for-wo … 18176.html
And he’s got a promise sorry note and the money order and everything.
http://www.livedash.com/transcript/the_ … 10/181168/
The Munsif thought that the plaintiff was holder of the promise sorry note on his own account and not on account of the firm Gokhul Panjiar-Mathura-Panjiar and that defendant could not claim any set off in respect of money due to him from the firm.
http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1332456/
“Did Obama just hand the banks a promise-sorry note?â€
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/ar … 54935.html
Ken posted on “promise story note†near the very beginning of the year; his post is here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=4312
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Wonderful. I’ve heard a lot of sorry promises.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I love it. Just in time for top 20 status.
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