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Language Myths 5: Not Enough Room to Swing a Dead Cat, Not Playing with a Full Deck, Not Worth a Tinker's Damn, Posh, Rule of Thumb

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Language Myths 5: Not Enough Room to Swing a Dead Cat, Not Playing with a Full Deck, Not Worth a Tinker's Damn, Posh, Rule of Thumb

Even more phony explanations of how words and phrases originated.

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