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I can't be sure, but the Cockney's have a habit of taking a phrase and reworking it into a slang term....so it could come from a corruption...."R" "E" "8" > "Arree-ate" > "Harry Tate"....
Of course, I have been wrong before (actually voted for Nixon once).
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"A 1997 study in Great Britain found that the average house cat brought home more than 11 dead animals (including mice, birds, frogs and more) in the course of six months."
Only 11? My cat calls that a "warm-up".
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