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To coin = to impress plain metal into the shape of a valuable and shiny new coin...
and so by extension to coin a phrase = to impress plain language into a valuable shiny new expression...
(the untrusim residing in the fact that this expression is dragged out like a dead chicken trailed through the dust when someone is about to offer up just a trite and hackneyed old saw)
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maverick 06/30/05 09:51 PM Re: jolly roger...
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