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Letter: Tow-rags and acrobatic toes

John Mitchell Hertford
Thursday 19 June 1997 23:02 BST
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Sir: Surely every grammarian knows that the expression "toe-rag" was coined by the script-writing team of the ITV series Minder as euphemistic rhyming slang for "slag".

JOHN MITCHELL

Hertford

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