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Chris -- 2018-04-11

#1 2009-03-21 13:50:50

DavidTuggy
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flew me for a loop

[I had been “frustrated”.] But what really flew me for a loop was when she …

Heather I remember you buying and laying your own floating floor – it flew me for a loop then and still does – what will you do with it when you leave?

If that’s what you want to call it Dan, just a few flurries, but just to see that in October flew me for a loop!!! and it’s COLD too!

that’s ok, i know the ava probably flew you for a loop. pfft, yeah, my name over there is Wolfo though. doppelganger!

This is probably mostly, if not exclusively, a blend of “threw me for a loop” (cf. past posts on “through him for a loop”) with such phrases as “frustrated me”, “flustered me”, “flipped me out”, “flipped my lid”, “blew me away/over”, “flew the loop”, and “flew the coop”. But if this is standard for anybody and if they think when saying it of something like the disorienting experience of a passenger in a plane which is flown upside-down in a vertical circle, it would be a rather nice eggcorn.
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(I heard the first example spoken, the others were from the Internet. I didn’t find any examples of “flew him/her/you for a loop”, or of “fly me/him/etc. for a loop”.)


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