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Thread #168994 Message #4082978
Posted By: Lighter
11-Dec-20 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: unusual versions of the foggy dew
Subject: RE: unusual versions of the foggy dew
Since "foggy dew" scans as well as "foggy, foggy dew," I suspect the extra "foggy" is a later development.
The phrase may have been suggested by the Irish tune "The Foggy Dew."
Interestingly enough, a bay gelding of that name ran at the Perth Races on Oct. 7, 1814.
That's the earliest appearance of the "foggy dew" I know of.