Hot as a.. Redux

neil neil at TYPOG.CO.UK
Sun Aug 12 21:40:24 UTC 2007


That should, of course had the book title included...


Pistol/piston eggcorn?

He would lie in her arms all night, Hoffmann said, horny as a rabbit, hot as
a piston...
- Daniel P. Reid, 'Dragon Mountain', Tuttle Publishing, 2006, 137

Neil Crawford

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