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Chris -- 2018-04-11
(If this has already been discussed I did not find it.)
Break The Bounds Of Flesh And Blood by Pagan Records, released 12 April 2014.
let’s break the bounds of how society says we should live.
After all there was intense satisfaction to Kate in having broken all bounds and done as she pleased.
Fowler’s actions surely broke the bounds of what is acceptable.
If existential phenomenology broke the bounds of Husserl’s transcendental idealism, in its application of phenomenological procedures to the problems of the lived body, intersubjectivity and human freedom, Ricoeur’s phenomenology opens the way for a second breaking of the bounds under the sign of hermeneutics.
(Many other exx., many published in edited works.)
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I suppose normally we break bonds and transgress, go outside of, break (out) through/from, erase/obliterate, etc., bound(arie)s. But both bounds and bonds, however restrict our freedoms, the latter obviously more drastically, and we may well want to break anything that so hampers us and opposes our desires.
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This is one of those that is so very old, widespread and reasonable that it may be taken not as an eggcorn at all but rather as an independent legitimate construction. After all, if everyone from hacks to great writers can use it, who am I to cavil?
Why hast thou, Satan, broke the bounds prescribed To thy transgressions, and disturbed the charge Of others, who approve not to transgress
What Milton hath cleansed, call thou not eggcornish.
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But I still think it somehow is. (So am I beyond the pail, having busted the bounds?)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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This is one of those that is so very old, widespread and reasonable that it may be taken not as an eggcorn at all but rather as an independent legitimate construction.
I think I’m in this camp. A Google Ngram of “break the bonds” and “break the bounds” shows that both idioms have been in regular use for two centuries. Before the nineteenth century, “bounds” in the sense of the borders of a property (cf. the old custom “beating the bounds”) would have lent sense to the idiom of “breaking the bounds” (i.e., going outside the boundaries).
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Here are some semantically out there what-can-only-be mondegreens. All but one are from India.
Private sector is developing by lips and bonds
Indian economics
forestry has been growing by lips and bonds in various states of the country
Indian Journal of Applied Research
Conhecer has been in existance for over 8 years and since the pilot project in Maputo 2006, the group has grown in lips and bounce
http://tinyurl.com/p49ytx2
India is developing by lips and bounce.
http://tinyurl.com/qdy22xq
Uses of internet is growing by lips and bounce in India and this innitiative will certainely add value to your campaign.
http://blog.lkadvani.in/blog-in-english … l-identity
I think Kem has already noted leaps and bounce, from which these sprang.
Later:
It has seen us grow from lips and bounces from single route to becoming India’s leading logistic chain solutions provide
Indian truckers
With the sector growing in lips and bounces it imperative to retain and acquire quality talent
Indian management blurb
Last edited by David Bird (2015-01-08 09:49:12)
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