"bailing wire"

[Dennis R. Preston]

arnold,

Please be more careful; I almost corrected what I thought was your
remotive-perfective to "Done been got there..." or "Been done got
there...." Of course, I eventually retrieved "Ben." You may have to
go for caps bro.

dInIs

>On Jun 18, 2005, at 10:55 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
>>... I'm pretty sure that Murie/sagehen was directing our attention
>>to the
>>eggcorn status of "bailing wire" rather than its metaphorical
>>extension.
>>I've added it to the Eggcorn Database in case there's any confusion...
>>
>>http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/386/bailing/
>
>ah, ben got there first and saved me the trouble.  i was surprised
>that this one wasn't already in there.
>
>arnold


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