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Today it means incidentally or in passing and the latter phrase is the clue to its origin from the late Middle Ages when it meant literally to pass so...
This expression from the New Testament has come to mean that one can only truly evaluate someone’s performance by the results delivered. The source is...
A metaphor for a very small margin i.e. the breadth or width of a hair dates from the late 1500s and was used by Shakespeare in Merry Wives of Windsor...
see Let bygones be bygones