Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Idioms for idiots

It's "tough row to hoe" - an idiom from farming times.

It's NOT "tough road to hold"
"tough road to toe"
or any other such ridiculous variation.

These may be eggcorns, but they ain't the correct idiom.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ooohhh really touching on the Hard hitting issues here. What's next? Correct usage of the semi-colon?

Doug said...

From Broadcast News:
"What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around?...he will just bit by little bit lower standards..."