That A Lot More became a mile, and then the inch was droppe… - Mark Forsyth

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That A Lot More became a mile, and then the inch was dropped because it doesn’t begin with an M, and we were left with ‘A miss is as good as a mile’, which, if you think about it, doesn’t really make sense any more. But who needs sense when you have alliteration?

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Who needs sense when you have alliteration?

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