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Chebona~Bula | 23:28 Mon 06th Mar 2006 | Phrases & Sayings
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Why do people call a traitor 'Blackleg' ?
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The Oxford English Dictionary has 'origin unknown' so it's up to you whether you choose to believe that it's got something to do with rooks, as suggested here:
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/curiousa.htm

Chris
00:08 Tue 07th Mar 2006
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The version I've heard is that the strikers would kick the strike-breakers on the shins and cause bruises. The same is the origin of the word "scabs".
03:55 Tue 07th Mar 2006
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I would forget you ever heard that term. You can't go round calling people *****leg anymore.


Look here for example. http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question207589.html


23:18 Tue 07th Mar 2006
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I'm not going down that road mudman. What a load of ******.
17:39 Wed 08th Mar 2006

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