The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #171245   Message #4142450
Posted By: MaJoC the Filk
24-May-22 - 10:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Olde Sayings
Subject: RE: BS: Olde Sayings
Woe is me, for I have been Wiki'd. The *second* DDG hit carefully explains that no such expression has been found in the entirety of the Latin mass, and traces the basic construction to a reference, in a work of literary satire, to a book which never existed. (I would have gone further, but my browser doesn't like the taste of said site's cookies.)

Moral: beware folk etymology.