Comment | @Jurist Well, obviously not a native, as stated and discussed before, and evident throughout all of her songs, but that's entirely beside the point. The actual lyrics (from her website) are, again, as stated before, "at", not "to", which to the best of my knowledge is valid. Can't confirm or deny, as I don't have sound right now, but apparently she sings it wrong in that recording.
The subject of this thread should be whether there is a saying like that somewhere (archaic, deprecated, locally used, used as a stylistic device...)
Good to finally see a native speaker on board. I'd say my English is more than adequate in most situations, but there are some instances where you just have to stumble across something weird.
(I sort of misspoke when I said I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt. I meant, rather than believing in the validity of that phrase against all odds, I was leaving a window open, keeping an ear out for people who might have something redeeming to say about it) |
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