Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 11:26:50 PDT

From: Duane Campbell dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EPIX.NET

Subject: Re: wing and a prayer



--- On Thu, 5 Sep 1996 11:02:27 -0400 "M. Lynne Murphy"

104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA wrote:







wing and a prayer" (or "prayer & wing", for that matter). does

anyone know anything about this idiom and its origins? a nice concise

definition would help me too, as i don't know how good my own

estimation is. how is: "to live with little more than hope to

sustain oneself"?



WWII GI slang. It referred to returning in an airplane that had been badly

shot up.





Duane Campbell

dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net



When I die and go to Hell, at least I can get my same ISP.