Tip of the slung or ...

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

It's a blend----from: "every name in the book" + "every name under the sun."
 
Gerald Cohen

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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Wilson Gray
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Subject: Tip of the slung or ...



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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