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A lot of it is private sales and there's a couple sites selling this land specifically. Not a typo, I meant like acorn away your savings.
by Ralo 3y ago
A lot of it is private sales and there's a couple sites selling this land specifically.
Not a typo, I meant like acorn away your savings.
- dredmorbius 3y ago"Squirrel away" is a far more common metaphor for that concept. Google search results for me turn up ~4k hits for "acorn away", vs. nearly a million for "squirrel away". Similarly on Google Ngram Viewer: <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acorn+away%2Csquirrel+away&year_start=1819&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acorn+away%2Cs...> Though "acorn away" seems to have had some currency in the mid 19th century: <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acorn+away%2Csquirrel+away&year_start=1840&year_end=1860&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acorn+away%2Cs...> Though not in the sense you are using it best I can tell. "Squirrel away" seems to have gained in prevalence after the 1950s, for some reason.