Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Hog-shearing
subs. (old).—Much ado about nothing; great cry and little wool.
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c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HOG. Labour in vain, which the Latines express by Goats-wooll, as the English by the SHEARING OF HOGGS.
