Monday

Has to be earlier than boxing...

but that was my first thought (Watched "Million Dollar Baby" last night).

Steve

Re: Monday

Maybe something like tipping the scales of justice? Preponderance of evidence? Just guesses.

Tommy

Preponderance guess needs more detail

WAG'ing Further

I don't know squat about law but I do know that in civil court cases one must sometimes provide a preponderance of evidence to prove their case and win. In that case one must keep adding more evidence to tip the scales from balanced to weighing in their direction.

Could that be the genesis of weighing in? Again...a WAG.

Tommy

Sorry.

Cotton pick'n time.

That's what it would mean here, don't know about there.

Picked cotton a total of ONE day, same length of time I had plowing a mule. I learned to drive tractors young.......LOL

Basil

Not here, as the origin of this saying...

goes way back they think, to medieval times. Banned in the 17th century it was reinstated in the 19th and continues to the present.

Re: Preponderance guess needs more detail

As in balacing the scales of quality not quanity????

Thanks for the question,

Dale

Re: Not here, as the origin of this saying...

Your response triggered a faint recollection.

In medieval times, didn't serfs have to pay their liege lords in goods (grain? flour?) equal to their own weight? Hence, the establishment of one's weight was important and to bring one's goods to the lord was weighing in.

BobH, swaggin' here Boss!

No the answer but... and hint

Not the origin for which I'm searching as my question is based in England. However, I'm thinking that partial credit dwells somewhere in that reply. I'm trying to find the story, I believe about how Montezuma (before he was stoned to death) had to deliver his weight in gold to get Cortez off his case in Mexico. I don't know if that story is legend or based on Spanish documents, but it certainly represents a "weighing in".

My question fits within the same general time period, but is linked directly to English politics.

Surely you must be referring to... *LINK*

This famous event in British history...

VILLAGER #1:

If... she... weighs... the same as a duck,... she's made of wood.

BEDEVERE:

And therefore?

VILLAGER #2:

A witch!


Burn the witch!

Sorry, no.

Re: Monday answer

The place is High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, England. Before being installed in office each elected official was weighed. Each spring the elected public officials were weighed to find out if they had grown fat at the public tough. The ceremony was banned in the 17th century, but reinstated in the nineteenth. Info can be found at http://www.mayorofwycombe.co.uk/ Click the "Traditions" button.

public trough not tough