10 November 2005 - devil-make-hair

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Cease and Decease, or, Explicative Deleted

In this devil-make-hair world, the English language is, for all intensive purposes, held together with duck tape. I have finally come to turns with it; I am no longer uphauled by you creative sages—in poignant fact, I heartily batter an eyelid at “antidotal evidence”. It may be deformation of character, but it is also free rain to exercise the ghost of giving short shift to the goal standard of a bonified honing pigeon. All hale the whole-scale old wise tail!

clue:

“Honing pigeon” is of course a reference to the phrase “hone in on,” which has become so popular that it threatens to replace the historical relic “home in on”. Psh, museum peace.

Many of the abusages are from The Eggcorn Database.

take oh take this clue away

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