frisk or frisk down
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Frisk.
Or "pat down" but nor "frisk down."
Or "pat down" but nor "frisk down."
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If I said ''frisk somebody down it would be wrong?
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Yes. "Frisk" says enough. "They frisked me going into the football game."
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:up: But, of course, it'd be understood. That sort of conflation of related idioms is quite common. Some Applied Linguist (I think it was Prodromo) collects them. The only one I remember from his collection of slips is "pipe up" + "chip in" = "pipe in". Such slips aren't right, but native speakers do make them.
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