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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This site about English idioms might be helpful in investigating eggcorns:
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/
The object/abject lesson eggcorn seems to be addressed, for example. (The site indicates that “abject” is common in India.)
So, as you can see, the idioms are not limited to US English. Have fun checking it out.
Feeling quite combobulated.
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Who you callin an idiom?!?!?!?
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I was waiting for that one! ;-)
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