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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Rather than the nautical chocks and blocks, this variant suggests the need for a little trimming to achieve a more comfortable fit:
IN October I attended my first ever meeting of the Drogheda Borough Council. The highlight of the night for me was the councillor who declared that the town was ‘chopper block’ with traffic and that cars were parking ‘nilly willy’.
... an hour and a bit to spare from my home which was 20 minute train ride (Acton central) and as soon as i got on the A40 it was chopper block.
More traffic problems:
The Brooklyn elevated was shock-a-block with an engine broken down and a solid line of trains from Terry to Greene avenue.
But things could get much worse:
The bucket was shock a block and the outside flowing with faeces. A stream ran out of the trap door. The ducks at least seemed to be enjoying it….
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And this one:
Girl scout geocaching site: “Search for a letterbox. Happily, Medford is chalk-a-block full of hidden letterboxes just waiting to be discovered.”
Probably most of the variations we found for “chock full” would work for “chock-a-block.” Shock, chock, check, chopped, shopped, jock, chuck.
An odd phrase, “chock-a-block.” Apparently it refers to the way wooden hoisting blocks come together when a block and tackle is used to do lifting.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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