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Few readers under 60 years of age will understand this statement: 'We installed a tin horn in our bar ditch.'; A tin horn is a corrugated, galvanized metal culvert installed alongside roadways to I know this fact, but I don't have a clue as to why a crooked gambler appearing in many western stories is called a tinhorn.
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Origin of bar ditch ... Borrow ditch ... Also called bar pit, bar ditch.
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In Reply to: Bar ditch posted by David on March 19, 2009 at 19:06: ... : Why is a "bar ditch" called that? ... 'The slang term bar ditch supposedly comes from barrow ditch when hand labor and wheelbarrows were used to haul dirt dug from a ditch and dumped into the roadbed to raise it above the surrounding terrain.
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World & News ... Find definitions for: ... ; Western U.S. a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes. Also called bar pit, bar ditch.
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bag - beg bakerds - backward bank - Prepare the far in the stove at night, sos ittle be ready next mornin bait - portion of food, as in: "I ate my bait in turnip greens." bananer (nanner) puddin - banana pudding bar ditch - borrow ditch bard - borrowed benz - because, since (Benz you're going, I'll go with...
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At Kro Bar today, where William Hague was addressing a group of university students. It was supposed to be about student apathy, but the shadow foreign secretary ended up talking about everything ... When I interviewed Mr Hague later, I asked him whether he thought Labour MPs really were likely to try to ditch Gordon Brown.
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Garden Court North Chambers are pleased to anounce that on Friday 31st March 2006, Mark Barlow was called to the Bar or Northern Ireland by the Honourable Society of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland. ... 19/6/09 GCN barristers urge Straw to ditch BVT plans...
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If your into looking through loads of blogs all the time, you may have noticed recently a similar app called ThumbWin which effectively does the same thing as this app. There are a few differences, which I shall explain at the end ... 4 Responses to “miniMize – Ditch the task bar, minimize windows to your desktop”...
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He also runs a digital label and online art gallery called 4bit, showcasing forward thinking Artists and Musicians. ... SOUNDCLASH at Ditch Bar in London tickets and event info ... at Ditch Bar, on Saturday 14th July 2007...
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