Eggcorn?

[Charles Doyle]

Sorry, dInIs: I inadvertently translated your name into northspeak!

--Charlie
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>Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:08:52 -0400
>From: Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Eggcorn?
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>dEnIs--
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>To me, the "in" form seems a lot more graphic and less delicate!
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>However, a very quick and sloppy Google search shows a greater prevalence of your "in" version (88,400) than my "on" version (12,000).
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>Everyone to their own taste . . . .
>
>--Charlie
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>>Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:57:39 -0400
>>From: Dennis Preston <preston at MSU.EDU>
>>Subject: Re: Eggcorn?
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>>Charlie,
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>>Yes; I have this "biter bit" longer form, but I require the
>>preposition "in" (not "on") in it. For me, a "bite on the ass" is literal (and itches or is an indication of very rough sex play).
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>>dInIs
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>>>I was thinking of a longer expression denoting that something (an caustic remark, a practical joke, a shady business maneuver, maybe even a well-intended deed) might "come around (or back) and bite you on the ass." A formulaic version of the old "biter bit" motif.
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>>>--Charlie
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>>>>Charlie,
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>>>>I have imperative "bite my ass" and exclamatory "kick in the ass"
>>>>but no fixed phrase "bite on the ass" (although in the
>>>>mosquito-ridden Ohio River Valley I suffered many such as a child).
>>>>Where is this "bite on the ass" a fixed phrase (and what does it
>>>>mean)?
>>>>
>>>>dInIs
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>>>>>
>>>>>That is, "nip in the bud" + "bite on the ass"?
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>>>>>--Charlie
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