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		toadworrier on Aug 13, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road I think of it as "The ship foundered on the rocks". Of course I suppose if a fish did the same thing we might have a foundering flounder.

AnimalMuppet on Aug 13, 2018 [–]

dictionary.com says that flounder may have come from a combination of flounce and founder (back around 1570 or 1580).

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