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Gibbons Burke and the contributors to his list play pretty fast and loose with folk etymology on some of those phrases--some of which we've discussed here; e.g., three sheets to the wind, the whole nine yards, POSH(?).
it will be interesting to see how much of the Duluth site material ends up in OED3.
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