To: wideawake
True enough. This is what Robert Claiborne had to say about it in his book "Loose Cannons and Red Herrings":
Beyond the Pale: A "double" metaphor. The original pale was a stout stake with a pointed end; then, a fence (paling) made of such stakes. Whence the original metaphor: various "fenced" enclaves under English control---notably, Dublin and its environs ("the Pale"), which for many centuries was the only part of Ireland where England actually ruled.
3 posted on
09/27/2004 9:52:27 AM PDT by
mc5cents
("We will have to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton)
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
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4 posted on
09/29/2004 5:33:08 AM PDT by
SJackson
(They're not Americans. They're just journalists, Col George Connell, USMC)
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