look their noses down

[Neal Whitman]

Possibly of interest:

http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/doug-bowls-over-me/
http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/she-ran-him-over/

Neal

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From: "Arnold Zwicky" <zwicky at STANFORD.EDU>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: look their noses down


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> On Mar 5, 2012, at 9:18 PM, Herb Stahlke wrote:
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>> I've heard "look prn. nose down" occasionally and wondered why "look
>> down" would be treated as a verb-particle construction.  "Look their
>> noses down" gets about 12k raw googits while "look down their noses"
>> gets about 5.5 million.
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> now on my blog:
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> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/reanalysis-and-reinterpretation/
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