Tip of the slung or ...

[Laurence Horn]

>On Aug 9, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>hey, have i really beaten out jerry cohen in suggesting this is a
>blend, of the idioms "every X under the sun" and "(call s.o.) every
>name in the book"?
>
>arnold
>
I thought he had (I even googled "every name in the sun" and found no
hits), but maybe it was just an assumption...

L

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