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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The other day I was watching the news on TV and the newsperson spoke of ”...an Iraqi musician applying his traditional trade…”. Has anyone else seen or heard that one before?
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Nice.
150 ghits for “apply her trade”—bound to be more for other combinations (applied his trade, applying their trade, etc.)
Raised by the streets of Brooklyn and her homicidal older brother, Shannon, Dena knows the game and is quick to apply her trade in
getting what she wants.
If Dupre was my daughter, I would break her jaw, then she would not be able to apply her trade.
Not a fiercely striking imagery shift, but eggcornish in some other ways. Ply and apply are from the same root, aren’t they? In some ways this is like shifting from Alzheimer’s Disease to Alzheimer Disease, or loved one to love one. Maybe an eggrice instead of an eggcorn?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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“Eggrice”? I get the feeling I’m missing the joke.
How about “an egged corn”?
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Don’t worry, it’s a pretty lame one —just that a “rice” is a lot smaller than a “corn”.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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DavidTuggy wrote:
Not a fiercely striking imagery shift, but eggcornish in some other ways. Ply and apply are from the same root, aren’t they? In some ways this is like shifting from Alzheimer’s Disease to Alzheimer Disease, or loved one to love one. Maybe an eggrice instead of an eggcorn?
Oh, I didn’t realize that ply and apply are from the same root. That does make it seem less eggcornish.
Re: the new adjective “eggcornish”—somewhere there’s a joke there involving Cornish hens…
Sorry;
Dixon
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Nothing to be sorry for …
Eggcornish hens rock.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
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