"wrench through . . ."

Charles Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Tue Feb 13 14:49:10 UTC 2007


I'm almost certain I heard CNN's Arwa Damon last night report that the big explosion in Bagdad "wrenched through" a market.

Did she mean "ripped through" the market? "Wrenched" it ("through and through")? "Rent" it?

Google gives 3760 instances of "wrenched through," the majority of which seem to be in this new (to me) usage. Less so with the 19,100 instances of "wrench through."

--Charlie
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