| «mend one's fences |
mendi cant |
mendict»
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| mendi cant - |
A person who, constantly and religiously, is humbled by the inability to perform simple tasks, such as sewing.
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You may have noted that in paintings of the Middle Ages, most people are shown wearing pullover shirts without buttons. Here's the reason why -- if they wore clothes with buttons, and a button fell off, they couldn't repair it. Back in those days, many more individuals were mendi cants. (ED. Another reason is that all the buttons were hand-carved out of materials such as ivory, and buttonholes were hand made -- by handmaids?) |
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