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"The earliest known version of the idiom “the straw that broke the camel’s back” was written by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury in 1677." I
by mrwnmonm 4y ago
"The earliest known version of the idiom “the straw that broke the camel’s back” was written by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury in 1677."
I am sorry, what?
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoApparently this is the quotation: > The last Dictate of the Judgement, concerning the Good or Bad, that may follow on any Action, is not properly the whole Cause, but the last Part of it, and yet may be said to produce the Effect necessarily, in such Manner as the last Feather may be said to break a Horses Back, when there were so many laid on before as there want but that one to do it. But I have to admit, I hadn't known it was that recent and had assumed it to be biblical.
- mrwnmonm 4y agoThis is ancient, man.
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