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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Ran across this in a published article about Elon Musk’s recent appearance on SNL:
[audiences’] available time is becoming shorter and more valuable – thus the sputtering “SNL†needed to hit the ball out of the part and Schiffer praised producers for their work with millennials and Gen-Zers.
Checking it there were 4-5 pages of hits, including
During his prolific period in the 70’s, he made albums that I think never hit the ball out of the part. They would have some really terrific hits, and …
Instead, they seek to attempt to hit the ball out of the part. Take the big swing. Go for glory. But the power of the incremental gain overtime …
Though FinalBoss Games did hit the ball out of the part, it didn’t stick the landing. I just hope that their next game will have a bit more final polish …
as an avid practitioner of yoga, Sara and Playboy hit the ball out of the part with this one.
‘He’s a switch hitter, you know,†said Dom, “and he can hit the ball out of the part right or left handed, He has very good speed and a tremendous throwing arm.
It looks like quite a few people might think this is the proper form of the phrase. The last entry above, where the original phrase would hit the nail on the money but the new one is much less specifically accurate, is particularly interesting.
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Depending on what kind of part is in mind, various eggcornish construals might be at work, e.g. transcending the expected role (=part), or exceeding the expected part of the spectrum of possibilities, and so forth. It would be interesting to ask a perp what he or she had in mind.
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Also relevant (and hilarious): ballpoint / bald part < ball park .
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2021-05-12 08:31:19)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Also ball part figure :
Can someone plz tell me a ball part figure what it cost to set up a 25 ft. Camper to stay in for a month November is when I’m talking about thats not…
What’s a ball part figure for a new system? Does it run price per square foot? Is each unit a separate bid? Thanks all.
(and many pages more.) My brain isn’t cooking up many plausible eggcornish construals at the moment, but it seems like there might be some out there. Any kind of a part figure will of course be incomplete, and that might be enough to account for it; maybe the ball just means a round number that only conveys part of the truth?
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“Ball part figure.” Good eggcorn.
Thinking back on an earlier eggcorn, “ball point figure.”
Last edited by kem (2021-05-18 13:01:06)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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