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Shared case

Didn’t expect a Brit to be having the time of her life on Independence Day but also didn’t expect to share the same calibre of evening.

All I got figured for your idiom is that they’re both typeset fonts. Am I on the right track?
 
Venus Piercing

carnotic said:
Shared case

Didn’t expect a Brit to be having the time of her life on Independence Day but also didn’t expect to share the same calibre of evening.

All I got figured for your idiom is that they’re both typeset fonts. Am I on the right track?
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Calibre and Case refer to two of the three main parts of a watch, the other being the Face. The idiom is essentially an extended metaphor as to how one is to run an estate (the Case) and treat staff (the Calibre).
 
Uma Oshichi said:
Venus Piercing

Calibre and Case refer to two of the three main parts of a watch, the other being the Face. The idiom is essentially an extended metaphor as to how one is to run an estate (the Case) and treat staff (the Calibre).
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Venous piercing

And thank you for the fun bit of historical idiomage!
 
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