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#1 2011-03-17 22:32:01

CatherineR
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Registered: 2006-08-09
Posts: 61

"behind clothes doors"

A friend reports that she saw on a message board, “We should keep that behind clothes doors.” Maybe whatever it is should be kept hidden in a closet? A google search turned up nothing, by the way. This may be a shiny new eggcorn!

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#2 2011-03-18 09:48:16

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2872

Re: "behind clothes doors"

I believe “clothes doors” is new. We did have a more general discussion of “clothes” for “close” last year, here and here.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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