And on the subject of “horses for courses” (meat or otherwise)…
…the phrase means: A person suited for one job may not be suited for another job. The practice of choosing the best person for a
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If the shoe doesn’t fit (2): eggcorns and etymology
“Shoe-in”, Ben Zimmer points out, belongs to a special family of errors called “eggcorns”: misspellings, mis-hearings or misinterpretations of standard (often idiomatic) words or sayings.
If the shoe doesn’t fit: getting the etymology right
Ben Zimmer’s latest On Language column in the New York Times (Beach-Blanket Lingo, 5 August 2010) examines the terms used by coastal resort residents (from-heres)