Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON J A BONE TO PICK T 0 SAY to some one that yuu you have 1 bone to pick with him has tor for us a very definite and unqualified meaning but so suggestive Is this very interesting expression that ours our Is not the only slung slang lexicon tint that hits has adopted it though when it comes td slang Ameri ameika cit Is supposed to lead the world england got ahead of us this time with the unbeautiful allusion ot of throwing a hone bone to a barking log dog it Is used in england in fit the sense of a sop to silence a troublesome person ov 0 a let prize for a threaten ing poll political adversary ader sary so 0 o to divert his ambitions from the house of coin mons chrisholm Chrls holm austen ansten was sent bent to as a a judge and in a commentary on political england of some time ollie ago we find the general plan to get rid of fin an oratorical patriot in the house hone was to give him a bone to pick truls a sop to cerberus for the circumstance which invited tile the expression and front from which farfetched though it may he be we reail i derive our use of it today we must tool to tin nn old wedding custom ol of sicilians ot of the lower class it used to he tile the general among them at tile the eno end ol of the file wedding repast tot fo the father of the bride to hand the bridegroom a hone bone with ft ath the by no means enigmatical statement rick ilick this for you ou have taken in hand a much harder rask copyright |