cruisin' for a bruisin'

English

Phrase

cruisin’ for a bruisin’

  1. Alternative form of cruising for a bruising
    • November 1987, Manuel Schiffres and Wendy Van Cott, “How to tell if the bear is back”, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, ISSN 1528-9729, vol. 41, no. 11, p. 67:
      By measures of valuation, the market is cruisin’ for a bruisin’.
    • 1998, Molly Wolf, Hiding in Plain Sight: Sabbath Blessings, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 19:
      Worse still, we’re told that gentleness is weakness, that love is just asking for grief, that generosity is fecklessness, that openness is cruisin’ for a bruisin’.
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