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French
Etymology
From petit (“small”) + juif (“Jew”). Allegedly the expression came from the time when most cloth merchants in France were Jewish, and would regularly hurt their arm on that spot against a bench while measuring fabric by wrapping it around an arm as an 'anthropomorphic' length measure, the aulne (compare ell).
Pronunciation
Noun
petit juif m (plural petits juifs)
- funny bone
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