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well there is still the idiom 'over wrought' for someone who gets 'worked up' over a small slight, or set back. and 'hard wrought victory' (aside from the well known wrought iron)
wrought is not completely 'dead'--unlike a telegragh-. no one sends a telegraph, and idioms using the word are growing uncommon, even AT&T is now AT&T (not just shorthand for American Telephone and Telegraph) telegraph is a word in its death thoughs.. maybe it will live on in a single idiom, or maybe it will die out, and our grandchilden will think themselves clever to know the word.
(remember the time before universal direct dialing? when you 'placed' an overseas call (with the help of an operator, and sometimes on a schedule convienent for the telephone company? and you could make person to person or station to station calls.?)
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