Eggcorn?

[Chris F Waigl]

Charles Doyle wrote:
> That is, "nip in the bud" + "bite on the ass"?
>
> --Charlie
>
>> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 04:43:10 -0700
>> From: Margaret Lee <mlee303 at YAHOO.COM>
>> Subject: Eggcorn?
>>
>> A couple of day ago on CNN, a former radio talk show host (can't recall his name) who has recently been suspended for offensive language regarding Jews, said in an interview that the powers that be are now trying to nip offensive radio language "in the but(t)".  Is this interpretation of "nip in the bud" an eggcorn? I had not heard this use before.
>>
>>  Margaret
>>
>
>

It is in the Eggcorn DB http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/291/bud/
and was mentioned a few times in articles. I'm convinced it's a
perfectly fine eggcorn -- someone thinking of butts, not buds.

Chris Waigl

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