[Ads-l] _bury your soul_ (eggcorn?)

[Mark Mandel]

I think you've hit that nail on the head.

Mark

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 11:49 AM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> In an article in our local paper about comics doing dramatic monologues
> about some event in their lives and then doing a standup routine about
> that.
>
>      He also thinks of the event as an interesting twist on the idea of
> "comedy as therapy."  It's an exercise in making one's self vulnerable.
>      "You do that in a story where you bury your soul," Purcell said. "Then
> ... you go tell a joke about it.
>
> Unclear if the reporter transcribed it wrong or if that's really what
> Purcell said.
>
> There are a surprising number of songs with that title, but the meaning
> seems to be (from Yahoo answers):
>
> > What does it mean to bury your soul in someone?
> >
> > I think it means when you tell someone everything all at once.
> > Metaphorically you are taking everything inside of you (your soul) and
> > burying it into someone (telling them). Now, everything you told to that
> > person stays with them
> >
> I can find:
> He once noted it's better to make the soul into a gold mine than to *bury
> one's soul* in a goldmine.
>
> Or riches obliterate one's conscience, *bury one's soul* in the gutter of
> one's greed.
>
> Yet there is awful truth in Rabbit's cynical thesis that “fraud makes the
> world go round,” and that to submit to it is to *bury one's soul*.
>
> which seem to be the opposite of baring one's soul.
> --
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