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fires on all four cylinder? #1 (permalink) Mon Jan 14, 2008 21:29 pm   fires on all four cylinder?
 

Hi,

There is this promotional video by SiteSell where at some point you can hear the following phrase:

"... soon Jim will have an CTPM site that fires on all four cylinder." Now, I guess the video was purely cut and the plural "s" after "cylinder" can't be heard. Or is there such a phrase "to fire on all four cylinder"?

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fires on all four cylinder? #2 (permalink) Mon Jan 14, 2008 23:38 pm   fires on all four cylinder?
 

I for one would always expect "all four cylinders".
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