Midnights · the-great-war · 2022-10-21
The Great War
Connections
One word kept twice where the idiom would drop it
evermore right-where-you-left-me “right where you left me” — Two ordinary English expressions are altered so that the word hairpin survives in both. Neither substitution is the idiomatic form.
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the-great-war lines hairpin-substitution–hairpin-substitution
hairpin trigger
echoes dialogue of Established interpretation
One word kept twice where the idiom would drop it. Two ordinary English expressions are altered so that the word hairpin survives in both. Neither substitution is the idiomatic form.