idiom blends
Arnold M. Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sun Oct 1 15:29:14 UTC 2006
over on soc.motss, Robert Coren catches two idiom blends:
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In article..., <chris.ambidge at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>In the late 1970s, I was in graduate school at the University of
Western Ontario, in London. At this point, I realised that I was not
heterosexual, but (self awareness not being my long shot...)<
This is not exactly an eggcorn, I suppose, but it's one of those, I
guess you could call them, mixed idioms.
(I'm reminded of one I heard the other day, from that most fertile
source of linguistic anomaly, a sports analyst: "There's no two ways
around it, he didn't pitch very well.")
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