Tip of the slung or ...

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Aug 9 15:31:16 UTC 2006


eggcorn?

>From The People's Court:

Younger white woman discussing her much-older - by 31 years - boyfriend.

"He called me every name under the book."

Eleven examples of this use of "every name under the book" in Google
among 32 in toto.

-Wilson
--
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have
found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be
imposed upon them.

Frederick Douglass

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