Weelll, Bill. Here's the thing. There is a "starting post" and there is a "finishing post". They may actually be the same post, viewed as each type, however, at different stages of the race.

I'd never thought about whether the expression "to be pipped at the post" was understood in America, but I accept that it may not be common usage there. It is in Zild, and I'm sure that it will be in Oz. Maybe even in Canada, contaminated though she often is by the linguistic foibles of her southern neighbour.

The post referred to, I believe, is always the finishing post in terms of this expression.


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