Friday, March 18, 2016

Why do we threaten to send horses to the glue factory?

Not that we (usually) mean it. The reason we say it is because equine corpses used to be disposed of by using them in glue manufacture, especially in cultures where horse is generally not eaten. These days, most glues are synthetic and animal-based glues are seldom made, but the saying has lingered.


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