all wool and a yard wide
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all wool and a yard wide
- (dated) Describes someone or something of high quality.
- about 1900, O. Henry, The Missing Chord
- And that was the piano that Uncle Cal had selected; and standing by it was the good, fine, all-wool girl that never let him know it.
- about 1900, O. Henry, The Missing Chord
