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"spitting image"
When I looked this phrase up, here's what I got:
"as like the papists, as if they had beene spit out of their mouthes. So it would appear that the metaphor of spitting something out of one's mouth gradually shifted to become the very spit of (something), which then turned into spit and image, which in turn became spitten image and settled on spitting image...."
say what?
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