Tight-knight

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:19 AM -0500 1/14/09, Baker, John wrote:
>         I thought for a second that the Wall Street Journal today was
>using a really novel turn of phrase:
>
>         "Cohmad [a small brokerage firm] fit into the tight-knight
>culture of the bigger Madoff firm."

And it's often a close fit, since they wear tighty-knighties instead of boxers.

LH

>
>         Apparently an eggcorn for "tight-knit" - it's unlikely to be a
>typo, anyway.  Most of the "tight knight" usages on Google are
>coincidental collocations, but "tight-knight culture" produces one hit
>of the same kind of error.
>
>
>John Baker
>
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