more on "break a leg"

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 3/15/09 10:45:55 AM, dave at WILTON.NET writes:


> we do have such a word, "jinx."
>

I think the Yiddish word is something like "anharra". At least, one of my
friends years ago used to say, "Don't put an aharra on it." He said his parents
had explained it as 'the evil eye'.


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