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Chris -- 2018-04-11
one more stick to add to the bonfire after this shin digs over
I will Be attending your shin dig
Occurred to me that shindig might conceivably be taken to indicate the shins dipping towards the ground in a dance. The fact that shin-wag is sometimes sighted as a synonym might lend some measure of plausibility to the idea. But that also might be derived (eggcorn or not) from the more-standard (I think) chin-wag .
Who knows? Color me sceptikle.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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