"cow down" = bow down

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Alison Murie wrote:
>
> Quentin Tarantino, in an interview with Terry Gross (free paraphrase):
> ....."she was the only one that didn't cow down to Goebbels."
> Confusion with "cower," I suppose.

Probably some influence from "kowtow" in there too.


--Ben Zimmer

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