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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Google counts on Nov 13, 2006
916,000 “is fraught with”
220 “is fraud with”
Analysis by Joe Krozel
When something is “fraught with,” say, danger, it is likely to produce peril or harm. As an eggcorn “is fraud with” suggests that an activity is accompanied by something unpleasant—and perhaps unexpected—like fraud.
Examples:
Although the usage in the first example is accidental (i.e., an eggcorn), the literal meaning is as amusing as some more contrived malapropisms…
FlashReport – Presented by Jon Fleischman*This coming legislative session is fraud with peril* —Senator Don Perata and Assembly Speaker and their respective legislative majorities will have their …
www.flashreport.org/blog.php – 119k – Cached – Similar pages
Minimally invasive cardiac surgeryFor patients with multi-vessel disease, it is fraud with problems of incomplete revascularization. The most important concern is the sub-optimal condition …
www.camsociety.org/issues/MinInvasiveCardiacSurgery.htm – 16k – Cached – Similar pages
[DOC] Levan MindeliFile Format: Microsoft Word – View as HTML
Therefore, further lack of effective demand for R&D output is fraud with an irreversible degradation of most areas of research. ...
www.redhucyt.oas.org/ricyt/interior/bib … indeli.doc – Similar pages
IMDb user comments for Ye ben (2000)A central star-crossed love triangle forms the film’s basic narrative, one that is fraud with hurdles of unrequited emotion, forbidden love and karmic …
www.imdb.com/title/tt0259744/usercomments – 41k – Cached – Similar pages
: MoneywebDealing room outcast Gawie Botha, has hit back hard at his accusers, claiming that the industry which employed him is fraud with shenanigans on a broadrer …
moneyweb.iac.iafrica.com/pls/cms/active_pages.show_pages?p_sum=Y&p_site_id=81&p_t1=1719&p_t2=... – 37k – Cached – Similar pages
[PDF] Identification of critical time-consuming student support …File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – View as HTML
whether in a distance learning environment or more traditional learning setting, is fraud with. difficulties, organisational, technical, pedagogical (cf. ...
dspace.ou.nl/bitstream/1820/397/1/Alleviating-preprint.pdf – Similar pages
The Carnegie Moscow Center – Publications – Articles and …Russia will try by all means to avoid that choice because any definite answer to the question is fraud with dire, even catastrophic, consequences for Russia …
www.carnegie.ru/en/pubs/media/47974.htm – 59k – Cached – Similar pages
The ForumLearning about Islam from within is fraud with danger, as it’s full of details and double-speaks which can easily be churned into sugar-coated teachings. ...
forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=4133 – 539k – Cached – Similar pages
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