top | item 39661824 (no title) 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. discuss order hn newest 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.
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.
dredmorbius|2 years ago
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.