[Ads-l] "pit in our stomach"

[Laurence Horn]

In addition to the craw that things stick in and eat at, there’s the frog in one’s throat that probably spit out the pit that ended in one’s stomach.  

The telescopic shift from "a feeling in the pit of your stomach" to "a pit (you feel) in your stomach” reminds me a bit of “the proof is in the puddling” < “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”.

LH

> On Feb 28, 2018, at 9:51 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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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