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Ralo | 2 years ago

A lot of it is private sales and there's a couple sites selling this land specifically.

Not a typo, I meant like acorn away your savings.

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dredmorbius|2 years ago

"Squirrel away" is a far more common metaphor for that concept.

Google search results for me turn up ~4k hits for "acorn away", vs. nearly a million for "squirrel away".

Similarly on Google Ngram Viewer: <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acorn+away%2Cs...>

Though "acorn away" seems to have had some currency in the mid 19th century:

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acorn+away%2Cs...>

Though not in the sense you are using it best I can tell.

"Squirrel away" seems to have gained in prevalence after the 1950s, for some reason.