Show 11 how it started I 1 esy jean newton BAD FORM A MANS seating himself at table before all abe women present have taken their places Is distinctly bad form and to say of anything that it Is bad form Is to brand it as behavior that Is not in accordance with etiquette it Is a long distance that the phrase bad form has traveled from its original application for bad form in its present day usage indicated Is a metaphor met ophor derived from the racing stable where it was an allusion to the horse which did not perform with perfect smoothness regularity and ordination as a racer should from racing the term was applied to athletics and sports generally and finally in the sense previously discussed bell Syna icat 1 |