> I'm not sure, but I think Sam Hill is a place just past cut a little slack and inkling in tar nation.
> Could a fiddlestick be a bow? We use too many of these confounded expressions. Small wonder that we don't have the foggiest idea what they mean. There's a word for them, but I don't use it because it has a little dodad over the e and that's too much trouble.
> Howard

I thought the word for them was simply "expressions". No doodad there. Unless you say "éxpressions", but that would have to be pronounced "ayxpressions" and would be unecessarily complicated. Oh, some of them might be idioms, too.

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