• MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Very fucking right. It’s toe the line though if you’re interested in improving things in a very small way.

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      2 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@lemmy.world
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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@lemmy.ca
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        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.