Timeline for "Everything is up for grabs"
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| Feb 5, 2017 at 0:19 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Jul 10, 2016 at 18:12 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I've always visualized the idiom "up for grabs" as having some stuff in a bag hanging from a cord above the heads of a bunch of people, with folks in that crowd leaping to try to grab the bag. I don't know if this is anywhere near the origin of the idiom, but it does convey the meaning -- that we don't know who, if anyone, will grab the bag, and until that happens things will remain unsettled. | |
| Jul 10, 2016 at 17:17 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/752190054622199810 | ||
| Jul 10, 2016 at 11:58 | comment | added | TrevorD | As regards your American/British question, the term is commonly used in British English. See Cambridge & Oxford Dictionaries. | |
| Jul 10, 2016 at 11:20 | answer | added | Peter Shor | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 10, 2016 at 8:30 | answer | added | Kian Maghsoodi | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 10, 2016 at 7:56 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added research, citation, kept the Q on topic (hopefully)
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| S Jul 10, 2016 at 7:31 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Improved formatting, fixed spelling etc, embedded the hyperlink, fixed the misquoted expression, improved the title
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| S Jul 10, 2016 at 7:31 | history | suggested | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Improved formatting, fixed spelling etc, embedded the hyperlink, fixed the misquoted expression, improved the title
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| Jul 10, 2016 at 7:23 | comment | added | deadrat | Nothing is certain. In particular here, no legal issue can be considered settled. | |
| Jul 10, 2016 at 7:11 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 10, 2016 at 7:11 | history | asked | luc lejeune | CC BY-SA 3.0 |