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#1 2007-09-22 22:59:23

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'one felt swoop' for 'one fell swoop'

The database already contains ‘one foul swoop’ and ‘one fowl swoop,’ but both are marked questionable because of the large phonetic change. This version doesn’t have that problem. And a truly fell swoop is apt to be deeply felt. About 1500 ghits:

... we are getting to bogged down with the insurgency – - it needs to be nipped in the bud in one felt swoop and not after we are ambushed by insurgents.
dailynightly.msnbc.com/2006/03/secrets_of_the_.html

Offline news reading requires that you upload your responses in one felt swoop, usually using a posting robot similar to the ones the spammers use.
www.jetcafe.org/dave/usenet/backoff.html

Now if I could only “bundle” my friends and have each bundle have its own individual settings to be turned on and turned off with one felt swoop…
www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/2007/03/twitter_the_os_.html

... meaning he could appoint six new members to the court in one felt swoop and therefore create a court that would not block the New Deal.
countenance.wordpress.com/2006/01/24/

If you choose the up-front option, you get $177.3 million in one felt swoop. Otherwise, you get about $12.16 million a year for 30 years.
countenance.wordpress.com/2006/02/17/i-love-you-tomorrow/


In one felt swoop, the Flyers picked up some depth on offense and a surefire No. 1 defenseman ...
www.411mania.com/sports/nhl/58893/Insid … Season.htm

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#2 2007-09-23 09:45:55

Chris Waigl
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From: London, UK
Registered: 2005-10-14
Posts: 115
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Re: 'one felt swoop' for 'one fell swoop'

Convincing, and much better than foul/fowl.

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#3 2009-03-28 19:23:57

burred
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From: Montreal
Registered: 2008-03-17
Posts: 1112

Re: 'one felt swoop' for 'one fell swoop'

Gathering up the classic swoops, of varying eggcorn credibility, that have fell here: A full swoop (see post 177), a foul (see also foul), a fail swoop, a fowl, a swell swoop and a felt swoop.

The list is not exhaustive nor necessarily genitive; there are several other entries here and there difficult to keep track of. This post contains two more, felled and fellow swoops. A stealth version based on an alternative definition of fell completes this entry.

If felled represents a new image for fell, might it be in the sense of killing two birds with one stone in this case?

Software board: Will Versions allow me to add all these files in one felled swoop to my folder without having me individually add them all?
(http://groups.google.com/group/versions … e?lnk=raot)

Fellow swoop gets 287 ughits , but I think it is a semantic pail – I can’t get the sense of it, unless it is related to a “one-man job”? Incidentally, I thought it best to use pail just until an uncompromised term can be proposed.

Gamer site: With enough firepower, entire bridges can be taken down in one fellow swoop.
(http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3162178)

Security blog: In one fellow swoop the company has had all its most critical information stolen…
(http://blog.scorpionsoft.com/blog/2009/ … nment.html)

Blog: In one fellow swoop, the work that took Hitler seven years could be accomplished in seven minutes.
(http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/edito … srael.html)

Game board: It’s important to note that this is all done in “one-fellow-swoop”. In other words, your opponent doesn’t get a chance to respond or chain to your Contact Fusion when you declare it to maybe destroy one of your monsters.
(http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_contact_ … _your_hand)

Fan fiction: Hercules finished his food, “Why is it, of all the people I’ve met, you’re the only who will surprise me and get under Iolaus’ skin in one fellow swoop?
(http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4471280/1/M … ess_Simple)

More interesting to my mind is a related jorkelian “stealth eggcorn”, where the imagery but not the spelling is altered. The fell a tree signification has been discounted in previous discussions of fell swoop, which only goes to show.

Question: What does “one fell swoop” mean?
Yahoo answers: it mean with one action. It was derived from lumberjacking. Chopping down a tree was also referred to as felling a tree. One fell swoop would be the last swing of the axe that would bring the tree down. it is the final action or single action that would make the tree fall, because all the swoops of the axe before it didn’t make it fall so it was referred to as one fell swoop. Hope that helps and I can’t believe some of the crap that I actually remember lol.
(http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/in … 651AADOeKr) (Yahoo answers is the site name, not my comment)

Incidentally, to fell a potential future swoop before it is swept, a plunging attack of a bird of prey is both
a swoop and a stoop, although the words come from different roots. The “one fell stoop” which occurs on the web is legit and not a confusion. I admire the following, the first for injecting the notion of descending to dispense wisdom, the second for another obvious play.

Racing blog: With perfectly reasoned argument and in one fell stoop you cut through all the bullshit and spin (link lost!)

There is no John, there is no Katrina orphan, but Child Protective Services needed some donations, so they made up the story, making a mockery of Christmas, orphans, and the Katrina disaster all in one fell stoop, as in STOOPID.
(http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:Wt4 … =firefox-a)

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#4 2009-03-30 08:19:58

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2714
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Re: 'one felt swoop' for 'one fell swoop'

A long-time favorite of mine is the spooneristic “one swell foop”.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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