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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Death knoll is already on the site; the death nail is too. The Grim Reaper can also demand your capitulation, through the death kneel or death knee.
financial news:
Yahoo! is in the death kneel process and investors we becoming willing to look for some return before the Yahoo train hits the final walls of failure.
(http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9990150-93.html)
thinkliberty title:
Death kneel of the 10th amendment
(http://blog.thinkliberty.com/2005/06/de … dment.html)
Cruise lines:
The new rules are the death kneel of the old ladies of the sea
(http://www.cybercruises.com/solas.htm)
Focus Nigeria:
It is with redeeming joy and abundant celebration that the good people of Edo state received the sounding of death knee on the culture of impunity, brazen callousness that gripped the soul of Edo state for nine-year and above.
(http://www.focusnigeria.com/nigerian-de … omhole.htm)
When the QB’s knees go, that’s all she wrote:
Chicago Bear Report:
Jets owner Woody Johnson’s request that Brett Favre participate in the team’s offseason workout program if he is going to return could be the death knee of the quarterback’s relationship with the team and his career
(http://fider.idg.pl/info.asp?j=0&id=22898321)
Italian political history (1939):
I believe now that Hitler is entirely committed to Mussolini – [...] – I also believe that France and England absolutely lack the moral integrity which would be necessary to resist. [...] It is quite possible that the Mussolinian conquest of Tunisia will be the death knee of Europe
(http://books.google.ca/books?id=w6KyuiB … A2-PA23,M1)
Football blog:
Barber said McNabb’s ignorance could be a death knee for the playoff hopes of the Eagles, now in last place in the NFC East
(http://blogs.usatoday.com/thehuddle/200 … bs-ot.html)
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Would death-knee be related to the notion of Death as “old Stretch-Leg�
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Yikes
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I’m resurrecting this old thread because I recently stumbled upon an example of this eggcorn and had never seen it before:
The ensemble instrumentation includes guitars, bass, drums, pitched percussion, reeds, strings, whistles and a cameo of an air horn, which will also feature a piano before its death kneel destruction.
description of a musical piece called Death of a Piano
Death kneel for death knell does seem eggcornish; it immediately brought to my mind an image of someone kneeling before the sword- or axe-wielding executioner.
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I think Death Kneel is just a typo, accidentally substituting a double E for a double L
“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
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yanogator wrote:
I think Death Kneel is just a typo, accidentally substituting a double E for a double L
And you’re likely right about that in most cases, Bruce. But this example shows that it is indeed an eggcorn for at least one perp.
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