Timeline for Where does "Going out on a limb" come from?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 30, 2013 at 16:50 | comment | added | Geek | @RegDwight What does hazarding a guess mean? Is this related to taking risk? | |
| May 20, 2011 at 12:58 | comment | added | Django Reinhardt | Yes, that's true, FF. | |
| May 20, 2011 at 12:57 | vote | accept | Django Reinhardt | ||
| May 9, 2011 at 13:37 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The fact that this sentence was followed by an explanatory All we've got to do then... strongly suggests that the phrase wasn't known before then. But here's an 1884 reference (again American), showing that the underlying concept already existed... books.google.com/… | |
| May 8, 2011 at 22:44 | history | answered | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |