[Ads-l] run amok/amuck of

[Jonathan Lighter]

Great minds think alike.

Homer and Einstein, for example.

JL

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> One for the Jerry Cohen-style syntactic blend compilation.  I don’t
> remember it, but here’s a relevant post from Dave Wilton:
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2013-January/124992.html
>
> LH
>
> > On Apr 21, 2017, at 8:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > "Run afoul of."
> >
> > Not in OED.
> >
> > CNN this morning: "...may run amok of the First Amendment."
> >
> > An 1880 ex. is at https://tinyurl.com/mh2my9m
> >
> > JL
> >
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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