Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 piece dorsum I wrote well-nigh a corpus search throwing upward slightly unexpected findings for the chunk 'crowded market'. Yesterday, I was researching some vocabulary some the subject of success as well as again, came across some to a greater extent than slightly unexpected uses.
The outset matter I noticed was how many of the words I'd picked out to speak well-nigh success were normally used inwards the negative to speak well-nigh lack of success.
He hasn't had whatever luck finding a job.
She tried ... without much success.
Your application has non been successful.
I wonder if it's a agency of existence slightly less blunt well-nigh failure. Are nosotros softening the blow a niggling past times proverb soul didn't succeed rather than admitting they failed?
What struck me fifty-fifty to a greater extent than though was the mutual role of the chunk succeed inwards -ing where the next verb describes a negative; oft the exact contrary of the intended result:
He tries to plough the light off, but entirely succeeds inwards knocking it over.
He entirely succeeds inwards excavation himself into a deeper hole.
... succeeded inwards alienating hispanic voters.*
It turns out that the usage, peculiarly preceeded past times only or just, is frequent plenty to merit a subentry inwards the Macmillan dictionary:
Needless to say, it succeeded inwards sidetracking me from what I was meant to locomote doing as well as proved no role at all for what I was writing, but I'll shop it away somewhere for time to come reference ...
* Examples from the enTenTen corpus via SketchEngine
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