OED Appeals: "rotten apple in every barrel"

[sagehen]

on 9/16/08 2:27 PM, Laurence Horn at laurence.horn at YALE.EDU wrote:

>> I know the third example as,
>>
>> "It's an ill wind that blows _nobody_ good"
>>
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This would have been the version that someone (?) used to calumniate the
(?)clarinet: "an ill wind that nobody blows good."
AM

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