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The Clean Potato
- The Clean potato [late 19c-1920s] - The right thing, the appropriate thing
“Helping Johnny with his math homework was the clean potato”
“Brandon was definitely the clean potato of his work group - he helped figure out the toughest problems”
Source:
Green, Jonathon. Casell’s Dictionary of Slang - 2nd Edition. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 2005. print
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Yes. I had forgotten about my enjoyment of outdated slang. I’ll be using this now, making a note-to-self.
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