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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I recently encountered the substitution of dud for thud in phrases derived from some form of “land with a thud”, for instance:
After reigniting the franchise with X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse landed with a dud.
movie talk
Republican Senate Candidate Ron Johnson’s all-day fundraising “money bomb†landed with a dud yesterday, performing so poorly that the campaign was forced to quietly yank the automatically updated counter from the campaign’s Web page without comment.
political article
... products like WebTV, Pippin, UltimateTV, Google TV, etc. never really lived up to the big visions and each of these products landed with a dud with consumers.
TV article
The first new wide release of 2011 landed with a dud, as “Season of the Witch†tracked down a measly $10.7 million bounty from Friday through Sunday.
movie article
So this is basically poor man’s The A-Team, but where its big-budget Hollywood counterpart landed with a dud, this ridiculous little action fest pulled all the right punches.
movie review
It makes sense as an eggcorn, as any effort that “lands with a thud” is indeed a dud. I did, however, encounter a surprising number of examples of a similar phrase with a different, non-eggcornish meaning:
Read on to find out what you must do to avoid being landed with a dud!
auto shopping advice
Apparently, “being landed with a dud” means being stuck with a lemon when acquiring something. That’s not an eggcorn, but otherwise I think “dud” for “thud” is an eggcorn.
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Some of these could be puns.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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kem wrote:
Some of these could be puns.
Yup. I did screen out from my list of examples those that seemed likely to be puns, but, absent actual perp confessions, any example of this one could conceivably be a pun.
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