MDMD(1) Notes

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Steven Maas writes [re Rutabageous Anaemia]:

> My best guess is a variant of "sqeezing blood from a turnip," i.e.,
> getting money from a person with little of it. 

In England we (strive to) squeeze blood from stones, not turnips (in
Scotland, by contrast, it's money from a sporran). Pynchon may be a
yank but he usually gets these things right.


Andrew Dinn
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