Eggcorns?
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Oct 5 02:51:59 UTC 2007
" ... _eyes glazed over_ ..."
"His _eyes glassed over_."
2640 raw Google hits
"My _eyes glossed over_."
890 raw Google hits; a mixture of obvious, IMO, eggcorns, with other stuff.
Both "glassed over" and "glossed over" replace "glazed over," but
"glossed over" is more often used in other, sometimes less-obvious,
senses:
"His _eyes glossed over_ Midori and shifted to Yuriko."
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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