Eggcorn?

[Wilson Gray]

Well, bite my ass, dInIs! Would you really use that as an imperative?
I have "bite my ass" only as an exclamatory. And I'm probably
mispreapprehending, as someone - Lochinvar Pulaski of "It Pays to be
Ignorant"? - on radio used to say, what you mean by "imperative" v.
"exclamatory."

-Wilson

On 5/24/07, Dennis Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
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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)?
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> dInIs
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> >That is, "nip in the bud" + "bite on the ass"?
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> >--Charlie
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> >>Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 04:43:10 -0700
> >>From: Margaret Lee <mlee303 at YAHOO.COM>
> >>Subject: Eggcorn?
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> >>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
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