Mudcat Café message #2200147

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Thread #38255 Message #2200147
Posted By: Charley Noble
22-Nov-07 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: Help: Kicking Up Bob's A-Dying?
Subject: RE: Help: Kicking Up Bob's A-Dying?

MartinRyan-

You get to share credit with Amos! What an excellent citation to this archane phrase, which most conclusively was not a figment of Patrick O'Brian's fertile imagination.

However, now the phrase makes little sense at all. How can one be "kicking up" "idling and dozing"? Too much information! O'Brian may have missed this citation.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble