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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I saw this in a newsletter from sone financial advisors:
“What is sure is that investors and economists will keep monitoring the overnight bank lending rate. If this continues downwards, we may move towards a more positive scenario. Otherwise, we may need to baton down the hatches and prepare for a bumpy ride.”
Google gives > 4000 hits. I suppose it’s not surprising that people don’t guess the nautical word “batten” (=strip of wood), but the idea of fixing hatches with a conductor’s baton gives a strange mental picture.
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You may be interested in the discussion at http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1248
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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