Sentence examples for corruption of the phrase from inspiring English sources
The word 'gypsy' is a misnomer, a corruption of the phrase Little Egyptians, erroneously ascribed to the dark-skinned travellers who appeared in Britain in the 16th century.
On his first day as the new head of FNAC, he was greeted with the banner, "Pinault, Père et Fric," a corruption of the phrase Father and Son that means Father and Money.
Perhaps the place where coins make their greatest Christmas impact is Scrooge's resentment for the holiday expressed by his "humbug". The word is thought to be an English corruption of the Irish phrase, Uim Bag, (pronounced OOM-bug).
That's my corruption of the original phrase "never trust anyone over 30," attributed to everyone from Bob Dylan to the Beatles, but actually coined in the 60s by free speech activist Jack Weinberger.
Ten years later trailer parks had become "dens of vice and corruption", in the phrase of the then FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover.
The name is thought to be a corruption of a Dutch phrase meaning in spite of the devil, referring to the dangerous currents below.
They heard the true spirit of the people in an unamplified guitar but the crass corruption of the capitalist Culture Industry (Theodor Adorno's phrase) in an amplified guitar.
But in the end "Bounce Ko Girls" (the title is apparently a corruption of a Japanese phrase meaning "bouncing high school girls") becomes a female bonding movie of the old school as the three young women pitch in to get one another out of their scrapes.
The use of "aught" to mean "nothing," "zero," or "cipher" is a nineteenth-century corruption of the word "naught," which actually does mean nothing, and which, as in the phrase "all for naught," is still in current usage.
