Why do we say it?
“Outrun the Constable.”
“Quoth Hudibras, “Friend Ralph, thou hast
Outrun the constable at last!” At last! So far as those who scribble for their livings are concerned, the constable must always have been asleep on his beat. He never tries to keep pace. A constable has always been a person who kept watch and ward over things. And to “outrun the constable,” therefore, means to let one’s financial affairs get out of control, to spend faster than one earns. Of course, for some people it is necessary to do so on account of having already “outrun the constable.”
The best jff ace to live is “just within one’s income.” But very few few of us are so conceited as to imagine that we are entitled to live in the best place!
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Southland Times, Issue 21096, 30 May 1930, Page 8
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136Why do we say it? Southland Times, Issue 21096, 30 May 1930, Page 8
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