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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Quick Quiz #91121 01/06/03 02:05 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Well now. According to this site http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2F013BF2 big shot, at least in the US, dates from the 1920s. Course this isn't a registered etymology site but. PS Edit Quinion http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-big1.htm mentions it in a general discussion of "big" phrases in a specific discussion of big cheese, apparently dating it after the 1914 appearance of the latter phrase. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Quick Quiz stales 01/06/03 05:19 AM Re: Quick Quiz Faldage 01/06/03 10:54 AM Re: Quick Quiz stales 01/06/03 01:08 PM Re: Quick Quiz Faldage 01/06/03 01:19 PM Re: Quick Quiz stales 01/06/03 01:22 PM Re: Quick Quiz Faldage 01/06/03 02:05 PM brief interruption AnnaStrophic 01/06/03 03:30 PM Re: Common Thread Faldage 01/06/03 03:43 PM Re: Common Thread tsuwm 01/06/03 03:47 PM Re: Common Thread Faldage 01/06/03 03:58 PM Re: Common Thread tsuwm 01/06/03 04:21 PM Re: Common Thread WhitmanO'Neill 01/06/03 04:34 PM Re: Common Thread Faldage 01/06/03 04:52 PM Re: Common Thread WhitmanO'Neill 01/06/03 05:43 PM Re: Common Thread Faldage 01/06/03 06:24 PM Re: Common Thread milum 01/06/03 06:42 PM Re: Common Thread Faldage 01/06/03 06:47 PM Re: Common Thread wwh 01/06/03 09:17 PM Re: Common Thread TEd Remington 01/07/03 12:47 AM Re: Common Thread sjm 01/07/03 01:10 AM Re: Common Thread tsuwm 01/07/03 01:58 AM Re: Common Thread AnnaStrophic 01/06/03 04:31 PM Re: Quick Quiz stales 01/07/03 01:08 PM Re: Quick Quiz wwh 01/07/03 01:31 PM Re: Quick Quiz Faldage 01/07/03 01:35 PM Re: Quick Quiz rav 01/07/03 02:13 PM The answer that question is "cotton". TEd Remington 01/07/03 02:28 PM Re: The answer that question is "cotton". Faldage 01/07/03 02:35 PM Re: The answer that question is "cotton". WhitmanO'Neill 01/07/03 03:21 PM Re: The answer that question is "cotton". milum 01/07/03 04:19 PM Re: The answer that question is "cotton". Faldage 01/07/03 04:27 PM Re: The answer that question is "cotton". WhitmanO'Neill 01/07/03 04:48 PM Re: The answer that question is "cotton". Faldage 01/07/03 04:54 PM Re: The answer that question is "cotton". milum 01/07/03 11:15 PM Re: The answer that question is "cotton". wwh 01/08/03 12:45 AM Re: The answer that question is "cotton". TEd Remington 01/08/03 01:17 AM Post deleted by Wordwind Wordwind 01/08/03 01:20 AM Re: Egyptian Cotton wwh 01/08/03 02:13 AM A gentle disagreement Jackie 01/08/03 03:16 AM Re: A gentle disagreement wwh 01/08/03 02:51 PM Clothes don't make the woman AnnaStrophic 01/08/03 02:59 PM Re: Clothes don't make the woman wwh 01/08/03 03:13 PM Re: Clothes don't make the woman stales 01/09/03 11:20 PM Re: A gentle disagreement Faldage 01/08/03 03:52 PM Post deleted by Wordwind Wordwind 01/08/03 04:22 PM Re: A gentle disagreement WhitmanO'Neill 01/09/03 01:45 AM Post deleted by Wordwind Wordwind 01/09/03 08:55 AM Re: A gentle disagreement Faldage 01/09/03 10:49 AM Re: A gentle disagreement Jackie 01/09/03 11:48 PM Re: A gentle disagreement stales 01/09/03 11:24 PM Re: A gentle disagreement sjm 01/10/03 12:43 AM Re: A gentle disagreement wwh 01/10/03 02:37 AM Re: A gentle disagreement Faldage 01/10/03 11:27 AM Re: A gentle disagreement stales 01/10/03 01:58 PM Re: A gentle disagreement wwh 01/10/03 03:03 PM Re: A gentle disagreement WhitmanO'Neill 01/10/03 02:34 AM Re: Egyptian Cotton sjm 01/08/03 09:48 PM Re: Egyptian Cotton wwh 01/08/03 11:18 PM Re: Quilts AnnaStrophic 01/09/03 12:00 AM Re: Quilts sjm 01/09/03 01:28 AM Re: Quick Quiz Jackie 01/08/03 01:00 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts229,922 Members9,197 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish, Renegade98 9,197 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 327 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 26 A C Bowden 26 LukeJavan8 5 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,911 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,949 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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