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A hero's cape for spills and a coward's white flag for stains.
means A torn, worn, or scrappy piece of cloth, typically used for cleaning, wiping, or dusting.
from From Old Norse 'rögg,' meaning a tuft or shaggy strand of fur, which slipped into Middle English as 'ragge' — a frayed, ragged scrap. The same root gives us 'rugged' and 'rug,' all sharing that sense of something coarse and tousled. By extension, 'rag' came to mean any tattered cloth, and from there a low-quality newspaper (a 'rag') and the act of teasing someone ('ragging' them), as if pulling at their threads.
- Ragtime
- Named for its raggedy, syncopated rhythm
- Glad rags
- Old slang for your best party clothes
- Paper origins
- Quality paper was once made from cotton rags
- Red rag
- Bulls actually react to motion, not color
- On the rag
- Crude idiom older than most insults
rag doll — cat breed developed in 1960s california with blue eyes and colorpoint markings
rag time — musical genre pioneered by scott joplin in 1890s missouri with syncopated rhythms