"live neighbors with"

Tue Oct 3 16:53:32 UTC 2006

A transfer from the separable verb construction in German, I assume?

At 09:57 AM 10/3/2006, you wrote:
>A fortyish woman from Lancaster Co., PA, has said on the Fox News Channel
>this morning that she's "lived neighbors with" the Roberts family for
>several years.
>
>   There are only several dozen raw Googlits for this phrase.
>
>   JL
>
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