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Chris -- 2018-04-11
There are a handful of hits on this phrase in Google: “mindless drizzle.”
I was inspired to search for it after reading a Washington Post article comment, which mentioned “racist drizzle.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co … ments.html
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Hi, Jill, welcome to the Eggcorn Forum.
I actually LOL’d at “mindless drizzle.” I agree with some of the regulars who say that the best eggcorns make one laugh, not in derision, but in delight at the re-formed word. I like this one a lot!
That said, I don’t think I buy the imagery of “racist drizzle” being anything more than a malapropism. However, I can imagine (if not successfully Google) “incessant drizzle” as a vaguely annoying wetness of idiocy.
“Let’s not get bogged down in semantics.”—Homer Simpson to Gary Coleman
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Thanks. It made me laugh too. There are Google hits for “pointless drizzle” :) also.
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If you find one which might have some meaningful imagery, you might want to post the examples so we can hash out whether it was intended. “Drizzle” has such a concrete meaning that it’s liable to bear fruit. It’s hard to tell whether “mindless drizzle” might have imagery or simply be mindless.
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