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Making things by hand, then by machine, then by someone else overseas entirely.
means To make goods on a large, systematic scale, originally by hand and now almost always by machine.
from From Latin manu factus — 'made by hand' — fusing manus (hand) and facere (to make). It entered English in the 1500s meaning literally handiwork, which is almost comedic now: the word was born to describe hands doing the making, and then history handed the job to machines and the word just... kept the old uniform.
- origin
- latin for made by hand, ironically
- root words
- manus plus facere, hand plus make
- modern irony
- now means the opposite of by hand
- other use
- also means fabricating evidence or outrage