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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Old Mario Cuomo has gotta be roiling in his grave right now. It’s sad. Pathetic.
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It’s tragic they felt kinship with him and did their best to see him elected. MLK is roiling in his grave.
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Complete drivel! Ol Robert E must be roiling in his grave.
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Thos. Jefferson is roiling in his grave and every American has reason to be ashamed.
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Surely an eggcorn. Rolling and roiling evoke similar images, especially when we think of a rolling boil.
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Getting all roiled up, so to speak?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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There are more than 100 instances of a rolling bowl on Google, mostly not about googlies. Bring to a rolling bowl and add oats.
“A roiling boil” is amazingly widespread. Here’s a blog by a linguist, offering her justification for roiling: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogs … ling.html.
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