up sticks/up stakes: eggcorn origin?

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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> FWIW, "cut out" = "depart" in BE.
>

Solely BE?  If I heard a white guy talk about "cutting out", I think it
would be clear what he meant (although I can't ever specifically
remember hearing anyone, white or black, use the phrase.)



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