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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I see that cold-harded is in the database, (instead of “cold-hearted”) but it looks like use of “cold-hearted cash” instead of “cold, hard cash” is new…?
sources:
quote from an interview with a strip club regular, discussing transactions in strip clubs.
p.185, “G-Strings and Sympathy:Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire”, by Katherine Frank, Duke University Press, Durham, 2002
and 107 hits on google, some of which aren’t relevant, some are, e.g.:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ … 1/BNStory/
“MacMurray’s character forgets to buy his long-suffering mistress, the young Shirley MacLaine, a gift for Christmas and instead counts out some cold-hearted cash in a bar and tells her to buy her own.”
Last edited by alyQ (2008-04-01 09:24:25)
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Yah, butt… doesn’t that pretty much sum up all money? Cold-hearted?
Very nice! Thanks for sharon!
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I could see that someone might mean “cold-hearted” and use that term without realizing that it sounds so much like “cold, hard.” Or that they’d use it on purpose. Esp. in the example above—that is pretty cold-hearted behavior, and it’s not the normal place for “cold, hard cash.”
I think I’d want to see a few more uses before I totally sign on for eggcorn status.
But it certainly has potential!
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