Posted on 07/18/2016 9:44:51 PM PDT by aynrandfreak
I found this quote (someone posted referring to it) from the movie John Q (2002):
“When you say you’re gonna do something, you do it. Because your word is your bond, son, that’s all you have.”
One is a centuries-old idiom. The other is a common way of describing coming from poor origins. The parts in-between are notably different.
No one accused Michelle Obama of plagiarism when she used the idioms without attribution, did they? The most you can say is that their boilerplate is similar.
It’s a lot older than that, and it’s a commonly known anachronism - or else no one would know what it meant. But yeah, it’s one of many potential examples.
They were just a few common platitudes string together. But the combination was the same. We now know why and the answer was innocent enough. Story is a nothing burger.
Ummm. . .I said “shine his shoes”, not “wash his feet” ;)
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