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cafard
5212 days ago
Was the expression "brush fire" current in the late 1700s? In fact, the whole sentence looks a little questionable.
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dpcx
5212 days ago
Not really...
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=brush+fire&...
As well as
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams#Misattributed
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As well as http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams#Misattributed