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Subject:
Oyster part
From:
"Andrew K. Rindsberg" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:47:32 -0500
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Here's one for the quote collectors. My calendar of 'Forgotten English'
cites the 'oyster part': 'An actor who appears, speaks or acts only once.
Like an oyster, he opens but once' (Ebenezer Brewer, 1898, Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable).

Andrew K. Rindsberg
Geological Survey of Alabama

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