in a meeting today it occurred to me that with the number of short, deep voiced men we employ, we could film a movie about dwarves without much trouble.
Is it 'one fell swoop' or 'one foul swoop'? I lean towards the former, I think I'm having a Macbeth moment.
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And I went off to check what the difference was between fell and foul to have a look:
Foul goes with rotten, corrupt, stinking.
Fell goes with cruel, violent and vicious.
So I'm sticking with fell.
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MACDUFF: [on hearing that his family and servants have all been killed]
All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?
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Of course the undead would vote for fell... well the higher class of undead anyway.
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Fell swoop is clearly a better idea.
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One day - when I have time to burn - I'm going to compile a list of common phrases where people substitute what they think is the right word for what actually is. Should make for amusing reading :)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_frequently_misused_English_words
http://www.squidoo.com/misused-words
http://www.pittstate.edu/engl/gt/words01.html
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"One 'foul' swoop, eh? Did a bird just shit on you?"
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