Answer by user74391 for "Sick and tied" and "sick and tired"
Searching will find you a virtually infinite number of instances of "definately" too, but that doesn't mean it's not wrong. If it's not a typo, then it's a case of "all intensive purposes" where some...
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I think "Sick and tired" is the correct one. In the first one it seems as though whoever wrote it must have misheard the r.
View ArticleAnswer by John Lawler for "Sick and tied" and "sick and tired"
Sick and tired is the idiom. Sick and tied, on the other hand, appears to be an Eggcorn, though it's not yet in the Eggcorn Database. Hurry and submit it, and you'll get credit for the discovery.
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The phrase sick and tied appears to be either a typo (Theory 1) or a portmanteau of sick and tired and fit to be tied (Theory 2).For theory 1, @MrHen points out that "Roughly the first page of hits I...
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What is the difference between phrases "sick and tied" and "sick and tired"? Is the first phrase correct?Possibilities (summary from comments):The standard phrase is definitely “sick and tired” and the...
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