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Brewer's: Bottle
Looking for a needle in a bottle of hay. Looking for a very small article amidst a mass of other things. Bottle is a diminutive of the French botte, a bundle; as botte de foin, a bundle of hay.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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