Heard on The Judges: eggcorn.

[Wilson Gray]

Forty-ish Latino female standard-English speaker:

"I couldn't get him to bring me a contract. He just kept _hemming and hauling_".

--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-----
-Mark Twain

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org