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(Completely off-topic, but the phrase is didn't cut muster, not didn't cut the mustard. To muster is to summon the troops or athletes or other group members; and those which fail the subsequent inspection are cut, or culled or rejected. This is the same as didn't make the cut.)

Perl and English are both very idiomatic languages.

(Back on topic.) Why the reticence to change a version number? It's a different version. The version you gave is broken, the new version is fixed. It's not a big deal if your 1.0.0.0.0.0 is broken; just upload that nice 1.1 and be happy.

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Re: (OT) english idioms
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 16, 2004 at 20:33 UTC
    Completely off-topic, but the phrase is didn't cut muster, not didn't cut the mustard.
    And completely untrue - well, maybe not untrue, but questionable ;)

    O. Henry coined the phrase "cut the mustard" in the early 1900's. Some linguists think that it's a corruption of "cut muster", but others think that it is about the mustard.

    Obligatory google link

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      Just because the corruption is a hundred years old, doesn't mean we should propagate it. O'Henry was known for his wordplay; he's also the author of several textbook examples to define irony, and not the kind Alanis sang about.

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        Did you look at the etymology at any of the sites google found? Granted, the internet is not an authoritative source, but of the top 10 hits, I only saw one that agrees with "cut muster".

        Regardless of the origins of the phrase, after 100 years it's become part of the English language. The language evolves to reflect how it is spoken, whether we approve or not.

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Re: (OT) english idioms
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 16, 2004 at 20:51 UTC
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      Cut the mustard all you want just don't cut the cheese!

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        I showed Le_Petomane with the incompable Leonard Rossiter for 6 weeks (I was a cinema projectionist in a former life), and never stopped laughing the whole time.

        Shame they never released it onto video. Trying to describe the movie to people just deosn't do it justice.

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