[Ads-l] "sucker punch" 1910 etc.

[Mark Mandel]

Well, thank you, Wilson! Evidently the construction was current at the time
and in the context.

Mark

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 11:48 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > This is ungrammatical. I think the "for" wasn't supposed to be there.
>
> Not necessarily ungrammatical: cf.
>
> > At times one saw the influence of Daly in the use of the left at close
> > quarters and
> > the effective high block for which [use of the left at close quarters]
> made Fitz's right look like a
> > sucker punch.
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 8:26 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is ungrammatical. I think the "for" wasn't supposed to be there.
> >
> > the effective high block *for which made Fitz's right look *like a sucker
> > punch
> >
> > MAM
> >
> >
>

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