"Not* an eggcorn. Right?

[Wilson Gray]

"… his wife committed suicide. _Wrecked by guilt_, he became estranged
from his family and began living on the streets."

The idiom is "(w)racked with guilt." But mere deviation from an idiom
does not an eggcorn make, right? It's hard to tell. The author perhaps
reached for the idiom, couldn't find it, and went with
WTF-close-enough-for-government-work.

Youneverknow.
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-Wilson
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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

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