Conservative. Idaho. Software engineer. Historian. Increasingly, frustrated with how the greed of a small number of lawyers is making life unreasonable for ordinary people.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
How Old Do You Think "Pick of the Litter" Is?
This is such a fiercely agricultural term that I was expecting it to go back to Elizabethan times, at least. And yet oddly enough, I can't find any uses before 1856!
1 comments:
Are you certain its usage was not limited to dogs?
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