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Chris -- 2018-04-11
From an internet movie discussion forum: “I’d want a Catwoman that is the highly skilled thief, not some half dead whore in patented leather with a whip.”
“Patented leather” yields about 13,000 Google-hits, but it’s nearly impossible in most cases to tell whether they really mean that the design of the leather belt they’re advertising is patented, or are just mistaking the term for “patent leather”.
I doubt it’s a true eggcorn, as I don’t think the meaning connection is there, but it’s kind of amusing anyway.
Dixon
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Cool. I presume patent leather was so-called because someone had a patent on it, so “patented” is likely to be a parallel expression based on the same stem and the same general semantic picture, just a slight grammatical shift.
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Related discussion of “pattern leather” and “Patton leather” at:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3558
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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