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To: Twotone

TOSSPOTS?? Never heard that one before. Must be a Britishism!


8 posted on 12/01/2018 8:21:01 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (English, the universal language of success.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
TOSSPOTS?? Never heard that one before. Must be a Britishism!

Around Shakespeare's time, a toss-pot was a bar fly. If you spent a lot of time in the ale house, you might earn the nickname "Sir Toss-Pot." Steyn's piece is the first time I've seen the term used in modern-day polemics.

13 posted on 12/01/2018 9:51:05 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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