who-laid-the-rail
adv. phr.— «All the time them gals up there in the loft a-screaming and carrying on to who-laid-the-rail.» —“William Edward Wilson” Abe Lincoln of Pigeon Creek , 1949. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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