[Ads-l] "pit in our stomach"

Barretts Mail mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM
Thu Mar 1 02:41:37 UTC 2018


See

https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6874 <https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6874>

“have a pit in my stomach” sounds oddly correct to me, like Eltwilli. BB

> On 28 Feb 2018, at 16:55, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM> wrote:
> 
> From CNN News
> http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/28/news/companies/dicks-weapon-ban/index.html
> 
> <quote>The Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz, did buy a gun at Dick's, but the company said it wasn't the AR-15-style rifle that he used in the school shooting. But Stack [CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods] said when the company learned about that sale "we had a pit in our stomach."<end quote>
> 
> -Jim Landau


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