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

[Wilson Gray]

> Evidently the construction was current at the time
> and in the context.

Youneverknow.

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 9:34 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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