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Show The Origin of a Phrase. " Phrases and slang terms are frequently fre-quently born of interesting episodes, as witness the following: Peter the Great, while off driving in the neighborhood of Moscow on one occasion, oc-casion, was seized with the pangs of hunger. "What have we in the hamper?" ham-per?" he asked of his aide. "There is but one candle left, your majesty," replied the aide, "but I think I can exchange it for a fowl at the next farmhouse, if you wish." . "Do so," replied the czar, "for I am famished, and do not care for a light luncheon." The aide laughed, and, as he had surmised, sur-mised, managed the exchange- but the bird was found to be unusually tough. "I do not think, Vosky," said the emperor, em-peror, later "I do not think the game was worth the candle." Harper's Bazar. Ba-zar. . |