06-20-2010, 07:55 PM
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
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I've checked my copy of "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable", as well as some online sites, but none of them really seem to know exactly how the phrase originated. It was saddled with its current meaning sometime before 1600s, but according to some sources may have been used even before that with a slightly different meaning. One of the first appearances of the phrase with its modern meaning was in "Four letters confuted", written by Thomas Nashe in 1592:
"Helter skelter, feare no colours, course him, trounce him."
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