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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Captured in the wild, from a blog:
“Forgive me for a moment while I got into a tyrant over this article …”
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Sounds like a malapropism… unless we can conjure up the right imagery.
Right now, all the two have in common is a negative connotation.
Here are a couple of the construction “Go off on a tyrant”...
CNN.com – TranscriptsHe would become very animated and go off on a tyrant, you know, just a fit about, you know, all these Jews that are in the media and on the news. ...
transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/13/pzn.01.html – 71k – Cached – Similar pages
Discuss Connellsville, PA – Fay-West.comthere you go off on a tyrant of jest. i will redefine myself. i am a bigot and a racist. i hate everyone who was not born and raised in the USA. if nobody …
www.connellsville.com/discuss/?thread=102114 – 54k – Cached – Similar pages
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