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wwjd_kilden

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notmyown said:
hmmmm.... are you lookin' at me and this thread? lol
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:p
nah, more along the lines of walking into a church and asking the minister "do you believe in God?"
 
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GaryA

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wwjd_kilden said:
I was watching QI a few days ago, and they asked about the "Not enough room to swing a cat".
Now most of us have "learned" that it is about a nine tailed cat (whip), but apparently, the expression to swing a cat was written down way before anyone though of making that thing. So it seems someone did at some point consider swinging a cat (poor cat!)
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It has always been my understanding that Jesus was whipped with a 'cat-of-nine-tails'. So, I imagine that it goes back at least that far...

Assuming this to be true, what makes it "apparent" that that expression was used before ~2000 years ago? How far back do you know of the phrase being used?

:)
 
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