Re: Straight out of the shoot

Ron Jarvis wrote:
<benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:53fd0082-55f3-4351-9e29-e8a9751976c6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Mar 17, 7:01 am, Ron Hardin <rhhar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

``I watched the caucus first round in Iowa on Cspan and what a
mess. There were reports of irregularities there straight out of the shoot.''

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/03/hillary-clinton-wants-democratic...

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rhhar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.


What's the question here?
It should be "chute". It's a rodeo metaphor. But obviously lots of
people don't know this, and spell it a different way.
A bit like "tow the line".



For other examples like the above, check out http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/

I suppose we can take it for granite that this one will be in there someplace, but there's no easy way to find out, apparently.

Bart Mathias
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