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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I heard this on the radio a few minutes ago. I googled it, and found a number of examples, but the meaning had been re-shaped. These seem to intend “plumb the depths”, though:
“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
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Seems like a plausible eggcorn. We plumb the depths by plummeting a plumb line.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Good one.
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Much like plunging the depths .
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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