Today’s Forgotten English is “bag of nails,” meaning:
American thieves’ cant. Confusion; topsy-turveydom; from “bacchanals.”
Yet today was remarkably unremarkable. Not a bag of nails to be seen.
For want of a bag of nails, the kingdom was lost.
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Today’s Forgotten English is “bag of nails,” meaning:
American thieves’ cant. Confusion; topsy-turveydom; from “bacchanals.”
Yet today was remarkably unremarkable. Not a bag of nails to be seen.
For want of a bag of nails, the kingdom was lost.