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[35m * To have hold of the wrong end of the stick - the phrase means to have    
[36m   the wrong slant on things.  In the sixteenth century the stick meant[5C
[34m   a staff and the writer who wrote "the worse end of the staff," made it   
[32m   clear that the wrong end of the staff meant you were the punished rather 
[31m   than the punisher.  In the nineteenth century the phrase came to mean    
[32m   being on the wrong end, not receiving what is fully deserved or getting  
[37m   only the left-overs instead of the whole pie.[28C
[35m * Lean over backward - In the eighteenth century the legal scales were[5C
[36m   weighted heavily against the accused person.  Judges had the reputation  
[34m   of administering high-handed justice that was unfair and prejudice.  But 
[32m   when a new political wave swept through the land, judges began leaning   
[31m   over backwards or became overly concerned with the civil rights of the   
[32m   accused person. The phrase for such a judge came to be a lean over judge.
[37m * "Alea est jacta!" as Julius Caesar said - in English it means the die    
[35m   is cast.  The meaning of which is the plan has been made and there is    
[36m   no turning back.  The words were first stated, according to historians by
[34m   Julius Caesar in 49 B.C.  Caesar uttered these words, it is believed,    
[32m   when he decided to march to Rome to protect himself from the machinations
[31m   of Pompey.[63C
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