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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Saw this mentioned elsewhere as a possible eggcorn but doesn’t seem to be in this database.
Here are 4 examples from a google search.
“Instead of returning to the biz, he holds up in his San Francisco apartment and starts to take in life.”
http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/ … RM=0&itm=2
(Review of movie “Post Concussion”)
“Hanada holds up in Misako’s apartment and Number One begins an extended siege, taunting Hanada with threatening phone calls and forbidding him to leave the apartment.” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branded_to_Kill )
“He holds up in the local inn run by a single mother and meets a retired policeman with a lost daughter, an impetuous newspaper reporter, an ornery male nurse, a wealthy couple determined to rebuild the town and island and make it work, and cranky and obstreperous old salts, from the local cop to cantankerous fishermen.”
(http://www.projo.com/books/content/BOOK … 9f751.html)
“So in a last effort of survival he holds up in the second floor of the mall with his co-workers and lives among different stores.” ( http://www.cinema-crazed.com/top10deadheroespartone.htm )
Last edited by alyQ (2007-12-02 22:17:13)
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Welcome to the Eggcorn website alyQ. I discussed the eggcorn you mentioned here in the forum:
HOLD up (holed) by jorkel Contribute! 0 2006-11-09 17:25:59 by jorkel
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