“Close but no cigar”: a fairground revival dish
“Close, but no cigar” and “Close but no coconut” are two popular phrases that originated on the fairground in the UK, around the turn of the 19th century. At the time, prizes, including tobacco and coconuts, were offered to those who won the games on the fairground stalls. At the coconut shy, for in...
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Prospect Books
2020
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