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Rob Peter to pay Paul ... If you know (or have a theory about) the origin of any of the following phrases, please e-mail me! I'll more than likely add it to ... hence, the expression, "I've got the Devil to Pay." If one were really in trouble, one was assigned the task of paying the seam between the devil and the ship's side.
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Feb 12, 2007 ... The origins of: To rob Peter to pay Paul ... Source: A Hog on Ice & Other Curious Expressions,The Origin and Development of the Pungent ...
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The meaning and origin of the American - English Rob Peter to pay Paul idiom has been explained above and forms part of the free, online idioms dictionary. An Idiom is a common, everyday phrase or expression or saying whose meaning cannot be understood by the individual words or elements.
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Although legend has it that this expression alludes to appropriating the estates of St. Peter's Church, in Westminster, London, to pay for the repairs of St. Paul's Cathedral in the 1800s, the saying first appeared in a work by John Wycliffe about 1382. ... What is the origin of rob peter to pay paul?
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Then the record sales never go well enough to do much more than pay back the loan. It happens now. I know of a situation where the artist had to get the CD relased or pay back the loan because the last deadline was looming. ... There is no "decent" way to "Rob Peter to Pay Paul".
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apparently money was taken from the government's allotment for Westminster Abbey in order to pay for construction of St. Paul's after the earlier cathedral on the site was destroyed by a fire in 1666. The full name of Westminster is "St. Peter's Westminster Abbey," and our guide told us that this is the origin of...
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"The expression 'rob Peter to pay Paul' goes back at least to John Wycliffe's 'Select English Works,' written in about 1380. Equally old in French, the saying may derive from a 12th-century Latin expression referring to the Apostles: 'As it were that one would crucify Paul ... THE ORIGIN OF THE PHRASE "ROB PETER TO PAY PAUL":
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Do not add insult to injury by robbing (poor) Peter to pay (rich) Paul. © Issa Shivji. * This article was first published in THE CITIZEN (Tanzania) in Saturday Palaver and is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author. ... Media & freedom of expression...
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Peter Orszag, a former Clinton advisor who is now president of a firm that analyses pension systems, estimated that payroll taxes would fall short of covering benefits as soon as 2005 under the Bush plan. "He's going to quickly run out of money," ... ...Republicans will pay any price to elect a man without qualities,
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