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a thousand tiny lies that suddenly agree to tell one beautiful truth
means A type of saw with a narrow, fine blade for cutting curves and intricate shapes, or the interlocking puzzle of cut-up picture pieces named after it.
from From 'jig' — the lively dance, and by extension any quick up-and-down movement — plus 'saw'; the tool earned its name from the bobbing, jigging motion of its thin blade. The 'jigsaw puzzle' followed in the 18th century, when mapmakers and educators glued pictures to wood and cut them into pieces with such saws, originally as 'dissected maps' to teach geography to children. Only later did the saw, then the puzzle, lend their name to anything we must piece together.
- named wrong
- Jigsaws never cut early puzzles; fretsaws did
- war tool
- First puzzles taught geography to children in 1760s Britain
- missing piece
- Factories knowingly ship puzzles short one piece sometimes
- record
- Largest puzzle topped 551,000 pieces
- brain perk
- Solving engages both hemispheres at once
saw franchise — horror film series with 10 movies (2004-2017) featuring john kramer's torture puzzles
jigsaw puzzle — recreational game with interlocking pieces, commercially produced since 1766