The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Tongue-and-cheek is the way most journalists treat sports at MIT. (MIT Tech, Sep. 25, 1990)
• “He was not afraid. There was a lot of tongue and cheek stuff,” Stokes said. (Univ. of Tennessee Daily Beacon, Sep. 29, 1995)
• The part about martyrdom was tongue and cheek, so I hope it would not be misconstrued. (Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education, Winter 1999)
• “The tongue-and-cheek compositions poke fun at some heady scientific subjects,” said McGarrell. (Brown University News Bureau, Apr. 26, 1999)