[Ads-l] Murphy's Law

[Laurence Horn]

A couple that have become standard: "hand in glove” (“hand and glove” standard before 1800), "Puss in Boots" (earlier “hand and glove" according to most sources)
And some go in the other direction, notably “tongue and cheek” < …in…

Not sure whether “left in right” is officially an eggcorn, though, since the meaning would be less rather than more transparent in that form.  

LH

> On Jun 7, 2020, at 2:04 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> It goes along with eggcorns like "part in parcel," "by in large," "neck in
> neck," "day in age," "front in center," and "one in the same."
> 
> https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/category/english/and-%c2%ab%c2%bb-inen/
> 
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 11:00 AM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> "Left in right" is what caught this former newspaper copyeditor's eye.
>> 
>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 5:07 AM James A. Landau <jjjrlandau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> http://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2020/06/06/roberts-place-margate/
>>> 
>>> (Murphy is the Governor of New Jersey)
>>> 
>>> "As absurd as it sounds, protesters, looters and rioters are violating
>>> Murphy’s Law left in right in New Jersey, but now Attorney General Gurbir
>>> Grewal is cracking down on Robert’s Place in Margate. "
>>> 
>> 
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