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Butterfingers: Charles Dickens used the term in his 1836 The Pickwick Papers (more properly called The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club): At every bad attempt at a catch, and every failure to stop the ball, he launched his personal displeasure at the head of the devoted individual in such denunciations as Ah, ah!—stupid—Now, butter-fingers—Muff— Humbug—and so forth. Doormat: As a metaphor applied to a person upon whom other people wipe their boots. First used in this sense by Dickens in Great Expectations: She asked me and Joe whether we supposed she was door-mats under our feet, and how we dared to use her so.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:38:06 +0000

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