FW: OFF-TOPIC: resource for sayings

[DJA -at- jenkon -dot- com]

Mike,
I found the origins for both of those sayings here:

http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/index.html

Debbie

Mike said: 
> One of my dept. heads is giving a speech soon, and he
> wants me to find the origin of the following:
> 
> "Straight from the horse's mouth"
> 
> "As a rule of thumb"
> 
> Anyone have a good resource on the Net for the origin
> of some of these sayings?
> 
> TIA,
> Mike 

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