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the looks I've always attributed to the fact my mother was allowed to drink in her second trimester. Growing up in NY I've mostly heard it the way I said it - although phoney as a three dollar bill is of course logically more correct as there never were 3$ bills. I was born in the 1950's and like now there were few 2$ bills in circulation - and I believe that's how the phrase morhed or became an accepted usage. Question everything - accept nothing.
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