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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
What is a "whipper snapper?" I've always wanted to know.
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Ooh! Ooh! Allow me!
"Whipper-snapper: A 'whipper-snapper' is an inexperienced and frequently precocious young person who is probably so called after a 'whipster', literally 'a cracker of whips' who was portrayed as a lively, mischevious individual."
-- From "Lock, Stock & Barrel: Familiar Sayings and their Meanings" published by Past Times.
I got this book for Christmas two years ago.....I knew it would eventually come in handy some day!
.....Kelly
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