"cow down" = bow down

[David A. Daniel]

Eggcorn for kowtow, clearly! (But I wonder if "cow down" is what he actually
said.)
DAD

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Subject: "cow down" = bow down

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.
AM

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