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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?

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