RE: OFF-TOPIC: resource for sayings

Subject: RE: OFF-TOPIC: resource for sayings
From: "Holder, Luanne" <Luanne_Holder -at- syntelinc -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:00:51 -0500

Another resource is Word Detective at:

http://www.word-detective.com/backidx.html

but I could only find "rule of thumb" not "straight from the
horse's mouth".

LuAnne
> One of my dept. heads is giving a speech soon, and he
> wants me to find the origin of the following:
>
> "Straight from the horse's mouth"
>
> "As a rule of thumb"
>
> Anyone have a good resource on the Net for the origin
> of some of these sayings?
>
> TIA,
> Mike
>
>

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