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by elsjaako 271 days ago
It's a bit of a fossilized error. Like "this begs the question of...", "head over heels", "sleeping like a baby", and "Have your cake and eat it too" everyone should understand what it means, even if it doesn't stand up to technical analysis.
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obligatory random mention that the last one is how they caught the unabomber.