DOING HIS STUFF
The phrase "to do his stuff" has still a modern ring about it—one gets a kick from using it in conversation with that air of savoir-faire so typical of the really bright people, says the "Manchester Guardian." What a shock it was, then, to find that sober .man George Fox, founder of Quakerism, using that very phrase; yet there it was in his Journal (Everyman edition, page 214) -plain enough for- anyone to see, and not in italics or inverted commas either, just as if it was an ordinary everyday expression. Here it is:
"And so, when the priest had done his stuff they would have had Friends come home to dinner."
Such a discovery makes one begin to doubt other specimens of our bright new slang. Perhaps someone will; find that Wesley or Wycliffe talked about having a "show-down."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 136, 10 June 1940, Page 7
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143DOING HIS STUFF Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 136, 10 June 1940, Page 7
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