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MBK asked in Education & ReferenceWords & Wordplay · 9 years ago

What is it about onions that makes it difficult, but worthwhile, to know your onions?

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  • bard
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    9 years ago
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    Charles Talbut Onions was the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. Anyone who was good with words was thought to be familiar with the work of Mr. Onions and so was said to 'know his Onions'.

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