"black as Caesar's tail"

[Scot LaFaive]

Even bigger straw grasping: black as (Julius) Caesar's (pony)tail. Maybe
that's pushing it a bit far.

Scot LaFaive


>From: Bill Le May <blemay0 at MCHSI.COM>
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>Subject: Re: "black as Caesar's tail"
>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:48:11 -0500
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>An amateur's straw-grasping: On the chance that this expression was only
>heard and not read anywhere, could it actually have been "black as Caesar's
>tale"?
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>Bill Le May
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