Blend: "my eyebrows dropped"

[Dennis R. Preston]

My perplexosity has to do with why this would be called a "syntactic
blend." The syntax of the combined elements is the same.

dInIs

     The blend here: "My jaw dropped" and "My eyebrows shot up,"  with
>>reference of course to surprise.
>
>Perhaps it wasn't referring to surprise.  Perhaps it was perplexion.
>
>Rima


Dennis R. Preston
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