Eggcorns, homophone hilarity and verb transitivity

[cimorene]

1. face now turning beat red,

[ouch]


2. He suddenly felt squirmish



3. Steves hands threw up in the air again

[ew]


4. Feeling like they are bearing into his soul a bit

[Is that like they were sailing parallel to his soul but have altered course to gradually impinge upon it?]


5. he pinned away



6. gouging themselves on much too expensive food

[CAN you overcharge yourself? At least it sounds slightly more pleasant than the more physical sort of gouging, which would also require the food to be both expensive and sharp.]

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

I rather like No. 2 but the rest are just cringy.

[cimorene]

Gouging was a nice bit of novelty, I thought. A rare target for this type of confusion.

But I agree that "squirmish" is the winner. There's something cute about it, somehow.

Re: Bearing into his soul

[stranger]

[Is that like they were sailing parallel to his soul but have altered course to gradually impinge upon it?]

Yes.

Of course, the whole construction is, um... new... but remarkably apt in describing the kind of people who want to know all about you despite knowing nothing about you.
I suppose it would work better if phrased so as not to be hilariously eggcornish.

Re: Bearing into his soul

[cimorene]

You mean like people who are like "Where are you from? Where is your name from? So is your whole family from there? Do you have a big family? Why did you move here? Is your family here too?"

Re: Bearing into his soul

[stranger]

Yep, that's the idea. Also, "What did you think of Current New Movie?" "Oh, no, you should think this other thing."