OT: Bus Speed
Graham Campbell
gc1111 at optonline.net
Sun Nov 21 17:27:44 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 23:10 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 04:45 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > I am not sure what you mean with "long-in-the-tooth" (lack of
> > English),
>
> Old, as in gums receeding. Not correct, as you point out.
Really OT. But the English "long in the tooth" idiom comes from judging
the age of a horse by its teeth. Also the saying "never look a gift
horse in the mouth" from the same source.
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Graham Campbell <gc1111 at optonline.net>
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