Give it a stab
Posted by Peter Mottola on February 14, 2008 at 09:48:
"Give it a stab." I was reading a translation of Montaigne's "Of Democritus and Heraclitus" and ran across these words. Did this phrase meaning "give it a try" come into English from Montaigne's French or by some other means?
- Give it a stab Smokey Stover 14/February/08