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Meaning: (dated,idiomatic)Tooriginate1923,Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, inEmily of New Moon:“I’m glad I’m onlyhalfMurray,” she said to herself. Aloud—“Father told me it was a Murray tradition not to carry spite past the grave.”“So ’tis now—but ittook its risefrom this very thing. His family were so horrified at it, you see. It made considerable of a scandal. Some folks twisted it round to mean that old Hugh didn’t believe in the resurrection, and there was talk of the session taking it up, but after a while the talk died away.”
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