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Fishing is one of the oldest occupations in the world, dating back at least as far as the Paleolithic era when catching fish was necessary for survival. Today, people fish for many reasons such as relaxation, the sport of it, or simply for the fish story - that colourful boastful tale about the size of the fish almost caught. There’s an old proverb that says nothing grows faster than a fish from the time it bites to the time it gets away. Over time, many fishy terms and expressions have... 

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Scuttlebutt

This is a wonderful slang word for gossip and we have to thank sailors for it. Water for drinking on a ship was kept in a butt, or a large cask. The cask was scuttled, that is, a hole was cut in it usually with a hatch as a lid, which was lifted... [Read more or comment]

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Third Time Lucky!

Thank you very much for my third win on the “Large Print Crosswords” competition! What’s even luckier is that I have received a different prize every time - first was the Collins Large Print Dictionary, second was the Collins Large Print Dictionary & Thesaurus (’cos you’d run out of the dictionaries, lucky me!) and this time, I received the Oxford Large Print Dictionary, another different publication! Doubly blessed... [Read more or comment]

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