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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I first noted this in a fan convention announcement:
www.portconmaine.com/
Fan run and for fans, the convention has succeeded year after year to bring anime and gaming funs events such as: a cosplay, anime music videos, two anime theaters, a video game room, panels, discussions, workshops, CCGs, miniature events, RPGs, board games, an auction, extreme geek, Cthulhu, karaoke, an artist ally, contests, free stuff, Dance Dance revolution, vendors, and more! Stock full of goodness, with enough events to keep you busy and wanting more- this convention is a family friendly outing for all ages!
Google lists 10,900 raw hits for “stock full of”. Most of them are unrelated, like
A Broken Stock Full of Promise [Motley Fool]
Dad’s Root Beer bottles, all new old stock full of original product
Cream of potato & leek soup made with our very own delicious stock (full of flavour)
But there are a few real hits on the first couple of pages:
wii.ign.com/articles/951/951652p1.html
IGN: The House of the Dead: Overkill Review
Feb 5, 2009 … The interface is stock full of huge poster art, character cut-outs, screen shakes and film scratches.
www.xtremetek.com/dumbassdb/index.php
Xtreme Tek – Dumbass Database – Stock Full of Dumbass
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=manassas
Areas such as Georgetown South and that area of manassas are stock full of mexicans. There seems to be somewhat of a drug problem in manassas. ...
Dirt = manassas = mexicans
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Cool. Another of those where it seems eggcornish but probably got there via blending: something like “chock full of†with “stocked withâ€, “full ofâ€, and/or “stocked full withâ€.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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The one thing I would add is that the alteration probably doesn’t occur through mishearing the original; “stock” sounds very different from “chock”. On the other hand, maybe people hear what they want to hear when something unfamiliar comes around; Or, if a person has to turn around and reuse an idiom containing a less familiar word (chock), then he just might replace it with the familiar (stock)—particularly if it’s interjected on the fly. And David may be correct, idiom blending sometimes occurs during foggy recollection.
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