who laid the rail
adv. phr.— «For all those years I have been loaded for bear with lectures of all sorts and sizes on “Who laid the Rail” to “What the Wild Western Waves are Saying.”» —“Tom Arter’s Lecture” Macon Telegraph (Georgia) May 19, 1890. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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