Timeline for Is “he is a proven commodity” a common phrase?
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| May 14, 2011 at 2:04 | history | edited | Callithumpian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 14, 2011 at 1:57 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
| May 14, 2011 at 1:18 | comment | added | Callithumpian | Distant relative: What's the meaning of “a staple amongst the community”? | |
| May 14, 2011 at 1:07 | answer | added | Callithumpian | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 14, 2011 at 0:14 | comment | added | Uticensis | You are correct that a person can't be ordinarily called a commodity. Only in this set phrase...I wonder what its origin is. | |
| May 14, 2011 at 0:12 | history | asked | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |