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Chris -- 2018-04-11
hope springs eternal – 420,000 googlehits
hope springs internal – 379 googlehits
This eggcornish variant of ‘hope springs eternal’ I find quite compelling; it keeps things to a human scale and nicely visceral and I find I prefer it to the original…
... the only hope for humanity as a whole probably rests in the inevitable fact that “hope springs internal” in the human species (Tiger, p. 147). ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9092(197911)61%3A4%3C612%3APAPPON%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
My hope springs internal, and so I will continue to strive to find my job/create a working company. But, at some point, I will become an electrician. ...
www.inblogs.net/gatesofvienna/2006/10/n … ampus.html – 100k – Cached
I’d already made a fruitless search for another recently released book or two today, but hope springs internal in the human breast, as my wife tells me, ...
www.bookcrossing.com/journal/879526 – 36k – Cached
There is an element of “hope springs internal” to baseball and the ebb and flow of the season that’s unlike the other sports. I love baseball because for …
stickandballguy.com/blog/2006/02/23/the-buzz-is-starting/feed/ – 8k – Supplemental Result – Cached
Further internal/eternal confusion is evident from googling “internal flame” though as ever there seems no easy way of isolating the eggcornish variants – here’s one anyway:
I can feel a strong bond between me and other members of this club, those who I hadn*t knew but share the same internal flame with me. ...
clubs.ntu.edu.sg/ntuwsc/Events/dinner.htm – 4k – Cached
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In amongst the numerous references to a death metal band of that name there are people who use the term “eternal bleeding”
Bleeding: Control eternal bleeding immediately.
apply direct pressure to stop blood flow
Which does rather suggest ‘bleeding that just won’t stop”
How can you tell if a mouse is having eternal bleeding?
I’m completely uneducated in this, but it doesn’t seems as if marijuana typically causes ulcers or eternal bleeding
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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I love both the idea of hope springing internal and that of eternal bleeding. (Well, not that of eternal bleeding, really. But it’s a good eggcorn, if people really think of it that way.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2014-07-20 13:06:12)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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