wild hair/hare

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Kevin Drum, on his "Political Animal" blog on cbsnews.com, tries to
figure out whether the idiom is "wild hair (up one's butt)" or "wild
hare":

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/26/politics/animal/main3418643.shtml

He quotes, among others, "word maven Doug Wilson", with a link to a
2002 ADS-L thread.


--Ben Zimmer

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