strong like ball

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:37 PM -0600 3/1/05, Gordon, Matthew J. wrote:
>
>Also, was "guts" seen as vulgar or coarse at some time? Today it
>seems mostly just informal.
>
Well, if "legs" was so seen (or so we're told, whence "piano limbs"
and such), I'm sure "guts" would have been.  I have no idea whether
"legs" *really* required euphemistic substitution in the Victorian
(or any other) era, though.

larry