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dkrizik | 22:27 Sat 06th Aug 2005 | Phrases & Sayings
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where did this saying come from? Why does it mean to give away work to another person or business?
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From a district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.

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23:17 Sat 06th Aug 2005
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My farming in laws are not available at present...but when my sister in law bought a big field, she rang up a local farmer and invited him to take a crop off it and pay her ! Which he did, like pretty damn quick !

So I reckon it is as old as farming - which in England is oooo 6000 years old.

Ta farming features in the NT 2000 years old - does that count ?

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