[Ads-l] to "course-correct"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Here's an "early" one:

1948 Irwin Shaw _The Young Lions_ (N.Y.: Random House) 55:   They’re
planning to follow me and purse-snatch my purse in a dark alley.

JL

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:44 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
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> > On Oct 4, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Charlie Doyle wrote:
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> > > Just yesterday I heard, "Well, he finally man upped."
> >
> > moderate number of hits for the externalized version ("man upped", "man
> upping").
> > not surprising, given the character of "man up" as a fixed idiom.
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> I neglected to cover these forms in my treatment of "man up" last year:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05FOB-onlanguage-t.html
> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2410/
> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2458/
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> But I did talk about "big-upped"/"big-upping" in this OUPblog post:
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> http://blog.oup.com/2008/01/big-up/
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> --bgz
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