Bawling your eyes out…

[Usernamenotavailabletryanother]

Not ‘Balling your eyes out’

That’s it. I just needed to get it out. It’s everywhere.

[DramaAlpaca]

Yes, I agree. I find it irritating too.

[TheBirdintheCave]

Sounds painful 😂

I've never seen that one before! Thanks for the giggle :)

[ErrolTheDragon]

It's actually a rather disturbing mistake, sounds like you're crying so much your eyeballs are popping out. Urghhh.

[BeautifulWar]

I've never come across that one before! I'm trying to imagine what balling one's eyes out might entail? It sounds like a medieval form of torture.

[greekyog]

From my 'point of you.'

It's fucking point of VIEW.

[Topseyt123]

I agree. It is very irritating and makes the person who has written it seem like an idiot.

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

@BeautifulWar

I've never come across that one before! I'm trying to imagine what balling one's eyes out might entail? It sounds like a medieval form of torture.

I'm picturing a melon baller.

[Johnnysgirl]

@greekyog

From my 'point of you.'

It's fucking point of VIEW.

Dear God, really?! I've never seen that.
I've seen Christmas Ball Balls recently, though 😂

[Walkacrossthesand]

There was also 'uttermet' for 'ultimate' on a recent end-of-tether thread. I'm proud to report that no comments were made, it not being the time or place

[DornChorus]

YANBU. Sounds like something they'd be getting up to in the Torture Garden.

[CustardySergeant]

One I read today (not on MN) spelled Cornish as Corniche! It was about tin mines in Cornwall, so definitely should have been the former.

[upinaballoon]

Do you think the word 'bawl' is used much nowadays?

( Not on the word, but on the topic of weeping, a relation told a little story of a child who visited their house regularly and when asked how she was and how her Mum and Dad were she said, "Mam's crying and Dad's not caring." Whether Mam had exclaimed, "And you don't care!" or Dad had said "Well, I don't care!" we'll never know, but some sort of argument was going on.)

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

I think 'bawled him out' is used, but I expect that's often rendered as 'balled him out' by association with 'ballsed it up'.

On the subject of trying to work out what an adult said that led a child to come out with a particular phrase - decades ago a teacher told me that she had sat with a new Reception child to do a simple baseline assessment. She showed him some shapes and asked him to name them. He correctly named the first one as a triangle and she said that's great, why is that a triangle? I don't know, he said. I'm not psychic! Teacher and I agreed his Mum probably came out with that a lot in response to the incessant questioning of young children.

[ErrolTheDragon]

Do you think the word 'bawl' is used much nowadays?

I just did an MN search since October 1st, lots of occurrences. We wouldn't be seeing 'balling' if it wasn't commonly used verbally.

[Zizz]

Doesn't 'balling' mean 'having sex' in America?