Another one

[sagehen]

 Roger Shuy writes:
>........."That's deeper than a post-hole toad." .... I've never heard this
>one before >or since and even the native Texan lawyers I worked with
>couldn't remember >ever having heard it.
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I wonder if this was simply meant to suggest a degree of trouble.  A toad
that had fallen into a deep hole as narrow as a post-hole digger produces
might well be unable to get out.
A. Murie