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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The whole epic could be settled with a little laugh after all is settled and done.
There are other ironic details to be told, but that might have to wait until all is settled and done. For now, let’s just be happy that everyone is alive and kickin’.
Won’t it be nice when all is settled and done!? I will definitely be lifting you up while you are gone! How long will you be there?
Long after all is settled and done, Iginla still has not won a cup, despite making the finals.
Clearly a blend of “settled†with “said and done†(w perhaps a tinge of settling dust?). But there’s some eggcorn potential there. Clearly both versions mean “when the situation has achieved its final formâ€, but one emphasizes that speaking is part of it, and the other does not, but rather more directly speaks of it being completed (the meaning of “settled†that is perhaps most prominent here) and/or the subject of agreement between interested parties.
Anyway, there are over 300 ghits for the whole phrase, many more for “settled and doneâ€.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Over 500 ughits for “set and done” as well. “Set and done” was noted as a replacement for “said and done” in one of the early eggcorn forum posts (http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/contribute … t-page-43/).
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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