Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)

paul johnson paulzjoh at MTNHOME.COM
Mon Jun 20 23:16:39 UTC 2011


paul johnson asked

Was mine the only family that used "Take the water off the potatoes"?
My father and his contemporaries all born around 1910

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