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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Under the yawning awning.
Placing her bags next to a chair she sat down at a table on the sidewalk under the shop’s yawning.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/575451 … s/13318174
I have 9 window yawnings that need repainted/oiled.
https://www.airtasker.com/tasks/paintoi … ngs-52516/
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There are quite a few of these online:
The walk became harder to complete as the rain obscured my vision. It hammered into my skull like bullets. It hurt. I ran under an onning on one of the shops.
gamer talk
But, Makai’s boat was great b/c it was the only one of its size (or a comparable size) that had an onning for shade!
review
We get under an onning to some building and wait in hopes he comes back.
memoir
...there was an onning just to block the sun…
quiz study page
Perhaps some perps are thinking it’s called an “onning” because it’s “on” some structure? A bit of a stretch, maybe.
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We were relieved to see an onning in the offing.
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Just so you don’t doff what you were dawning.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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burred wrote:
We were relieved to see an onning in the offing.
Reminds me of that old joke:
She offered her honor. He honored her offer. And all night long, he was on ‘er and off ‘er.
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“Yawning” for “awning.” Not bad. The stores wake up in the morning with a stretch and a yawn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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