heads, hands--who cares!

[Victor Steinbok]

That would still make for an odd hybrid of "burying their heads in the
sand" and "sitting on their hands", which others used in exactly the
same context.

     VS-)

On 9/1/2012 9:48 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Perhaps he meant "do nothing" rather than "be blind to the problem".
>
> At 9/1/2012 01:30 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>> Picked this up from a Steve Benen post on TRMS:
>>
>> "When people in the future look back at Romney's contempt for the idea
>> of "slowing the rise of the oceans," and his party's willingness to bury
>> their hands in the sand, history will not be kind."
>>
>> Searching for "bury their hands in the sand" and variations gives a
>> noticeable number of hits, but not nearly as many to one would expect
>> from a fully-formed eggcorn. Most hits appear to be leading to the
>> lyrics from the same song, but there are still a couple of dozen that
>> look eggcornish. With Benen, I thought he might have been making a pun,
>> of sorts (oceans, hands in the sand?) but heads in the sand would have
>> had the same effect.
>>
>>      VS-)

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