02-13-08, 06:50 AM
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Chief of the Boat
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
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Originally Posted by August
Sort of like the phrase: "Devil to pay" which according to author Patrick O'Brian originally referred to caulking (paying) the outermost deck plank (the devil) that joins the main deck to the hull of a ship. The original quote: "There's a devil to pay and no pitch hot".
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Or not.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dev1.htm |
I prefer the nautical version. "I don’t think" and " It’s more probable" sounds to me like he's guessing, but his answer does sounds lot more intriguing than "Yes it's true". |
Oh, I agree, it could well be true. I just take most of these with a grain of salt after learning the truth about "freezing the balls off a brass monkey." |
LMAO :rotfl:
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