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Well Rhuby, I would have said the same as you, but looking at the Cambridge and the OED, *they say that the expression slap-bang is indicative of excessive and reckless speed rather than exact positioning whereas smack-dab is given in the Cambridge as ‘straight or directly’. No derivation is given for either term but the first usage of slap-bang recorded in the OED is given as 1833.
There is also reference, dated as 1785, to a slap-bang shop. A squalid eating-place where you were required to put down your money on the counter at time of placing the order. I wonder if they sold the first Big-Macs .
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Smack-dab angelnanc8 04/28/04 11:53 AM Re: Smack-dab RhubarbCommando 04/28/04 12:02 PM Re: Smack-dab dxb 04/28/04 01:24 PM Re: Smack-dab Capfka 04/29/04 11:27 AM Re: Smack-bang shop AnnaStrophic 04/29/04 12:37 PM Re: Smack-dab shanks 04/29/04 04:21 PM Re: Smack-dab dxb 04/29/04 04:38 PM Re: Smack-dab RhubarbCommando 04/30/04 10:02 AM
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