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Anyone know where this expression came from?


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A better place to ask word or phrase origin questions as at wordorigins.org, the word origin message board:

http://p066.ezboard.com/bwordoriginsorg

You do have to register to post.


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Welcome, baltmann! Glad to have you. You might try
http://www.word-detective.com/index.html and
http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm also.

You may find others listed at:
http://maxqnz.com/References.html (Thank you again, Max; what a blessing that is.)



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