Simile: like *substance* through a tin horn

[Dan Goncharoff]

The conversation started with a documented sense of tin horn as funnel. It
seems perverse to pretend it didn't exist.
DanG


On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> No "tin horn" 'funnel' in OED either.
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> Since real tin horns are abundantly documented, it seems perverse to insist
> on a fanciful and undocumented sense as the relevant one.
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> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Because funnels look like horns, and both are made of tin.
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> > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > > I've never had any inkling that "tin horn" was a term for a funnel.
>  Why
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