[Ads-l] "pit in our stomach"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wasn't there a murder flick where the proof *was* in the pudding?

JL

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:28 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> 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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