• @[email protected]
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    -72 days ago

    I’ve heard that before, but tow the line, as in to pull something by a tether, makes contextual sense to me. Folks are doing work trying to carry that argument.

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      2 days ago

      The phrase is authoritarian. As in “you’d better get your toes on the line I just drew in the dirt, or I’m gonna hang ya, boy.”

    • Rob Bos
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      81 day ago

      I do love it when you can justify using a different homophone than the etymologically correct one.

      “eggcorns”. You can really do some fun ones. For all intensive purposes, they’re pretty much equivalent.