Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: How did “limbo” come to mean both “a period of uncertainty” (presumably from ...
How did “limbo” come to mean both “a period of uncertainty” (presumably from it being where the souls of unbaptised children ended up) and “bending over backwards to walk under a pole”?
This is going to bug me now it has popped into my head.
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