Timeline for Where does "Going out on a limb" come from?
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| Nov 26, 2015 at 14:25 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The comment link I posted years ago doesn't work properly now, but it was probably this from 1884: a similar dilemma with the man who, while standing out on a limb, made the fatal mistake of cutting the limb off between himself and the tree. The concept is trivial, and exactly when it become referenced more often in print also seems somewhat trivial/meaningless to me. | |
| Nov 26, 2015 at 0:01 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @FumbleFingers - But surely we need to know who first issued this utterance, and on what date??!! (Given the available accuracy of timekeeping at the time, though, we only require time resolution to the nearest millisecond.) | |
| May 8, 2011 at 23:11 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think this is a supremely adequate answer with precious little 'fat'. Apart from a superfluous "I think", which I'm hardly in a position to make bones about. With such transparent imagery, there's little point in listing historical usage or pontificating about 'origins'. | |
| May 8, 2011 at 22:46 | history | answered | Colin Fine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |