"_No holes barred_, straight talk." [NT]

[Ben Zimmer]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> "no holes barred"
>
> A member of the Clean-Minded Club, are you? "No Holes Barred" is the
> slogan of many an um-site!

Also an entry in the Eggcorn Database (with comments from Chris Waigl
on clean vs. um examples):

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/509/holes/

--bgz

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