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#120750 01/22/2004 10:06 AM

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Looking at the background etymology of Anu�s �fensibles�, I came across this charming expression in OED2:

to make a Virginia fence: �to walk like a drunken man� (Lowell Biglow Papers Introd.) [...]

1745 Franklin Drinker's Dict. Wks. 1887 II. 26 He makes a Virginia Fence.

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