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To: HairOfTheDog

Thanks, HairOfTheDog.

HairOfTheDog????? Is this some idiomatic term or an "Americanism?"

Anyway, I like the nick.


3,224 posted on 11/22/2004 8:36:36 PM PST by Baraonda
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To: Baraonda

Take a Hair of the Dog that Bit You.

 
After a debauch, take a little wine the next day. Take a cool draught of ale in the morning, after a night’s excess. The advice was given literally in ancient times, “If a dog bites you, put a hair of the dog into the wound,” on the homœopathic principle of “Similia similibus curantur” (like cures like).
~Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

3,227 posted on 11/22/2004 8:38:43 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (<<<loves her hubbit and the horse he rode in on :~D)
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