According to the site, beyond the pale is defined as the following:<\/p>\n
This ‘pale’ is the noun meaning ‘a stake or pointed piece of wood’, a meaning now virtually obsolete except as used in this phrase, but still in use in the associated words ‘paling’ (as in paling fence) and ‘impale’ (as in Dracula movies)<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The space within the paling fence was safe. Beyond the pale, not so much. Unless, protection becomes a trap.<\/p>\n
I do like sharp and pointy things, so I am delighted with the definition. Several years ago I made the series Tools for Rent<\/i><\/a>. It consisted of 11 bronze daggers, each bound into a cedar box.<\/p>\n The Phrase Finder <\/a> is a truly fun site to find meanings and origins of phrases you may be using and to find phrases you might like to add to your future conversations.<\/p>\n Pale is also a homophone (pail), so that could have possibly lead to some confusion. Loads of words when heard can be confused for other words. <\/p>\n A few confusion words in the previous paragraph: I will end with this quote from The Phrase Finder site bulletin<\/a>:<\/p>\n The evil that men do lives after them, From Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare<\/i><\/p>\n Recently the expression, \u201cbeyond the pale\u201d has been used numerous times in reference to numerous things said by the republican presidential candidate. Yes that is numerous and numerous. I knew what \u201cbeyond the pale\u201d meant in the context, but did not know the origin. Of course I did a google search. I found this great … Continue reading Beyond the Pale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-misc-interests","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4589,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tools](\"\/images\/ToolsForRent2.jpg\")
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\nso (sew)
\nSome (sum)
\nheard (herd)
\nfor (four)<\/p>\n
\nThe good is oft interred with their bones.<\/p>\n
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