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Show Exprssiions Little Understood. Ily li'o way, how odd It Is that good lartlfs are shocked at hearing a "tinker"' "tin-ker"' ds'n" used In this reckless manner. man-ner. ,, The fact Is 'tis not a "cuss" word. A linker':! dam refers not to the spiritual future of the tinker, hut to a small dnm of clay iif-cd in an old fashioned tinker's outfit; hence tinker's dam, something very Inconsequential. Anil while we are on 't, probably the most Id lot It: ex resslon in the, world is; "The. exception proves Hie rule." Now the exreptlou to the rule does not prove the rule; a rule with au exception excep-tion really Is no rule nt all. The oxprosslon really means that the legal exception (to the ruling of the court) proves (I. p., tests old meaning) the rule nf the court when the appeal is taken. I.ok Angeles Times. |