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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
I wish those sites would go a little bit into the history of some of those sayings ... or explain them a bit more. For instance, Zeep might not know that a "polecat" is a skunk.
Also, that "three sheets to the wind" actually came to the South through the mariner's tradition. A sheet is a sail, and if you have three sheets to the wind you are REALLY sailing along (i.e., drunk).
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A sail is a sail and a sheet is a line used to trim a sail but it really doesn't quite work as a well when you really know the real definitions of words.
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