Fwd: Nominal Egg

[Kim & Rima McKinzey]

Just got this from my brother-in-law and thought I'd post it here for comment:

>A number of years ago Safire had a nice column in which he posited
>that people would say "nominal egg" instead of "an arm and a leg". I
>decided to (look)for that article but instead found a number of
>people simply using the term. Do you have any information about the
>history of the term and whether it was already in use before his
>column.
>
Rima