Fit to be tied (1912)

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri May 16 14:45:35 UTC 2003


On Thu, 15 May 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    DARE has "fit to be tied" from 1950.  Not really a hint of origin
> here, but much earlier dates.

Note that OED has citations for this going back to 1894.

Fred Shapiro



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