Re: Straight out of the shoot
- From: "ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx" <ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:13:44 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 17, 10:36 pm, "Paul J Kriha"
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On Mar 17, 4:32 pm, Bart Mathias <math...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ron Jarvis wrote:
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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...
--
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 outhttp://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.
Well, it's not written in stone.
Here, here!
It's "hear, hear!"
.
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