another (unintentional) idiom blend
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Jun 13 17:07:31 UTC 2010
At least I assume it was unintentional. A British commentator named
Mack (didn't get his whole name) on ESPN's World Cup Live yesterday
after the U.S.-England draw, discussing the importance of the
upcoming Algeria-Slovenia match in the same group:
"If someone goes out and wins tomorrow, they take the group by the
bull of the horns!"
(As it turns out, Slovenia did in fact win, and thus now has Group C
by the bull of the horns.)
LH
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