DEAD HORSE
"B.C. MALLAM" wrote
I know it is an advance on pay but where did the term
"dead horse" come from?
Maybe in your 'group', it's "an advance on pay"
but think for most it's --
Many years ago in my callow youth, I wanted to
buy a nicer car, my mother loaned me some money
needed, and I set about paying her back while
driving same. Car got wrecked. I finished paying
her back - truly paid for the "Dead Horse"power.
And tend to believe the origin was also from a
person paying the debt incurred (thou what it
was incurred for was no longer viable).
So in your example, advance on pay used for
leave, leave was fun, nothing tangible left, now
time to settle up accounts.
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