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spinner1000 | 19:59 Mon 21st Feb 2005 | Phrases & Sayings
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Why do we say "a tidy profit"
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As long ago as the 1300s, 'tidy' was used as an indefinite epithet meaning 'good, excellent' etc. More recently - particularly around Dickens' time - it came to be used to mean 'considerable' as in 'a tidy pace', 'a tidy tip' and 'a tidy penny' etc. Hence, 'a tidy profit' today.
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