"heads and tails above"

[Nancy Friedman]

Spotted today on Romenesko, a journalism blog:



>> I'm also a journalist in Kalamazoo who's been following Killian's work
for years and I feel like it's heads and tails above the work of the average
journalist.<<

Link
<http://jimromenesko.com/2012/07/19/kalamazoo-journalist-uses-kickstarter-to
-get-the-pulse-of-the-people/>



I'd never seen/heard "heads and tails above" previously, but it's in the
Eggcorn Forum. The contributor was Dixon Wragg, who noted more than 9,900
ghits in 2008. When I checked today, there were 119,000 ghits.



I'm picturing "heads and tails above" being about 18 inches higher than a
mere "head and shoulders above."



~ Nancy







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