Labels:text | screenshot | font | black and white | number OCR: Phrase Craze! Page 16 * Elbow grease: to put some energy into an activity or job. This phrase comes to us from the action of polishing furniture. In the seventeenth century in the Dictionary of the Termos of the Canting Crew, this phrase first appeared. * A Lead-pipe cinch: A sure certainty or something considered to be easy. Originally the phrase was only cinch, being taken from the Spanish word cincha, a saddle-girth. Lead pipe was added to phrase only sixty years ago. The only thing assumed by experts is that lead pipe was added to phrase to show a sure, absolute thing, since a cinch is made of nothing more than cotton and a lead pipe is certainly more secure and stronger. * Ace in the hole: describing something that is held in reserve or that is undisclosed. The expression, no doubt, c ...
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