This thread brings up a question I would like to present to this esteemed set of literary scholars (along with anyone else who is reading this).
I have grown-up with a common verbal idiom, denoting something that is loosely assembled and completely without forethought or design:
Jury rig. But I have read/heard it as Gerry rig.
Anyone know the proper expression and the root? I thought, perhaps, the "Gerry" comes as a reference to WWII and the German army building makeshift weapons in the field.
I cannot form any association in my mind to a Jury except that, in an attempt to prove/disprove/understand an assertion made by a witness, the jury would quickly assemble a replica.

ATdhvaannkcse,
THOM

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