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"Every little helps".
by underwater 7y ago
"Every little helps".
- dkdbejwi383 7y agoYeah this is a strange one, my brain reads "helps" as a noun here, it takes an extra beat for it to infill a ghost noun between "little" and "helps" ("every little bit helps")
- mehrdadn 7y agoIs that a correct sentence in either dialect? It doesn't sound well-formed to me!
- dkdbejwi383 7y agohttps://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=749 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=749
- willyt 7y agoIsn't that colloquial saying though? Trying to think of another good example... "It never rains, but it pours."
- LyndsySimon 7y ago> "It never rains, but it pours." I've never heard that construct. Are you by chance referring to Morton Salt's motto "When it rains, it pours"? I think it was HN that lead me to the discovered not too long ago that the phrase originated from an early-20th-Century ad campaign of theirs following the introduction of magnesium carbonate, an anti-clumping agent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Salt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Salt
- willyt 7y agoNo it is a colloquial saying in Britain, especially in the North of England. Me: "I hurt myself at work, then I lost my wallet and my girlfriend left me", Someone else: "It never rains, but it pours".
- groovy2shoes 7y agoYour example reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K8s9cNqZO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K8s9cNqZO4
- LyndsySimon 7y agoInteresting! In the US - in the Arkansas Ozarks, specifically - I've heard the other version in the same context.