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ZombieDarwin 8 year s ago
#21 FFS! The needle being referenced to is not a knitting needle, as pictured! The needle is the name of the very small door in the large gate that controls access to a town or castle. When the gate was closed, the only way in or out of the town was through this very small gate, just barely big enough for an adult male to squeeze through. At the time, camels would enter the town laden down with goods, doubling or even tripling their width. Thus, the typical camel would be unable to go through the needle unladen, and absolutely impossible for a fully laden camel to do so.
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Funny 5 year s ago
#7 Wrong. The phrase predates the First World War by around a hundred years.
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
Don’t get rid of important things with the unimportant.
In the 1500’s people would often bath once or twice a year. In families, the adult male would go first, then the women and then the eldest child and then so on. Eventually, the baby would be left in bathwater that was often totally filthy. The idea being that the mother would mistakenly throw the child out along with the water. People weren’t that stupid back then were they?
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ZombieDarwin 8 year s ago
#21 FFS! The needle being referenced to is not a knitting needle, as pictured! The needle is the name of the very small door in the large gate that controls access to a town or castle. When the gate was closed, the only way in or out of the town was through this very small gate, just barely big enough for an adult male to squeeze through. At the time, camels would enter the town laden down with goods, doubling or even tripling their width. Thus, the typical camel would be unable to go through the needle unladen, and absolutely impossible for a fully laden camel to do so.
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Funny 5 year s ago
#7 Wrong. The phrase predates the First World War by around a hundred years.