Talk:have one's pockets on swole
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"To have a lot of money" SOP of pocket (“financial resources”) and on swole (“swollen, enlarged”). Ioaxxere (talk) 19:06, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
- Keep. I'm not sure that I can articulate why, but this doesn't "feel" to me like it's simply "pocket" + "swole". I also tend to be more lenient when it comes to combining multiple figurative senses together. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 19:31, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
- There is only one figurative sense. swole is a dialectal variant of swollen. Ioaxxere (talk) 20:40, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
- Both "pocket" and "swole" are being used in a figurative sense. "Swole/swollen" refers to physical enlargement, and only by extension (i.e., figuratively) to the enlargement of financial resources, etc. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 02:22, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
- There is only one figurative sense. swole is a dialectal variant of swollen. Ioaxxere (talk) 20:40, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
- Keep - readers unlikely to deduce meaning from parts. Facts707 (talk) 14:03, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
- Delete, double metaphor. Fay Freak (talk) 12:05, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
- Keep. We have other set phrases where 'pocket' is used to mean 'financial resources' like out of pocket and it's not really clear what the purpose or meaning of on is in this phrase either (though we do have an entry for on swole as a set phrase). --Overlordnat1 (talk) 08:51, 3 March 2024 (UTC)