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To: Don W

“arm-in-arm”

There are no editors these days and even fewer capable teachers of English idioms. Lots of teachers of idiots, though...


8 posted on 01/28/2016 7:40:11 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45
There are no editors these days and even fewer capable teachers of English idioms. Lots of teachers of idiots, though...

You see these mangled idiomatic expressions every day now. My pet peeve: "tow the line."

17 posted on 01/28/2016 11:47:49 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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