: an uncertain and usually uncontrolled postponement of something inevitable —used with living on
I hadn't realized this phrase was about postponing something. We've been doing this a long time as the first documented use was in 1664.
And other words from that year? That's what got my attention - here are just a few:
guinea pig
monthly meeting
champagne
celery
greenhouse
delphiniium
equatorial
pergola
mug
When you look at these words, one wants to have some sense of how they came into use.
When was the guinea pig discovered? in 1554 it was first described. But indications were it was domesticated in South America around 5000 BCE. But alas with European colonization of South America, guinea pigs as pets and food led to their extinction in the wild. Did you know that guinea pigs live for 5 to 6 years and at one year old are considered to be 50 years old in human age?
That's just guinea pigs.
Next is the monthly meeting i- a Quaker convention/activity for the governing body to get together every month. There are variations on the date first recorded in the internet entries. Compare that to today if you enter monthly meeting into any search engine, the dreaded corporate monthly meeting and how you as a manager can make it work is the theme of the day. A far different phrase in the 21st century.
There are no guinea pig pictures in my thousands of images. Some pig pictures - these from the From Our Gate to Your Plate farm a few years ago.
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