Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on August 19, 2003 at 08:21:49 from 195.93.32.8 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: How were square sails furled? posted by John Nichols on August 18, 2003 at 20:02:39:
Pun? Certainly not! Sound etymology! It's "touch and go", but I hope we shall never be "hard up" for such expressions, or we might come to dislike "the cut of each other's jibs", some might think others were "sailing too close to the wind" and "in due course" like John, aboard Goblin in Harwich Harbour, we might "come to the bitter end"!