no love loss

[Wilson Gray]

>From "Judge Joe Brown":

Plaintiff: She made me uncomfortable because she was using very profound
language.
Judge: Do you mean, "profane"?
Plaintiff: Uh, yes.

On 5/18/06, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> USA Today headline, Mar. 27, 2006:
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> "No love loss for Zhang Ziyi in Hong Kong."
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> http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-03-27-zhang-hong-kong_x.htm?csp=34
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> I haven't been contributing much to the Eggcorn Database lately, but I
> couldn't resist this one...
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> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/712/loss/
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> --Ben Zimmer
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