[Ads-l] "pit in our stomach"

[Ben Zimmer]

See also previous discussions here.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2012-February/116198.html
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2017-July/148674.html


On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:41 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
> >
> >

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