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Wiktionary:Requests for deletion Sep 5th 2012, 21:19 ‎at arm's length: Keep ← Older revision Revision as of 21:19, 5 September 2012 Line 2,535: Line 2,535:       This is [[at]] + [[arm's length]]. [[[[arm's length]]]] has figurative senses. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 20:21, 5 September 2012 (UTC)   This is [[at]] + [[arm's length]]. [[[[arm's length]]]] has figurative senses. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 20:21, 5 September 2012 (UTC)   +   + :'''Keep''' "arm's length" here is defined as an adjective. "at" + an adjective doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me - one can't be "at distant" or "at independent". ''arm's length'', to me, seems like a more recent innovation (as in "an arm's-length transaction") derived from the older ''at arm's length''. A Google ngram appears to back this up - "an arm's-length" [http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=an+arm%27s+length%2Cat+arm%27s+length&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 doesn't become popular until the 1960s], while "at arm's length" appears to peak around 1900. [[User:Smurrayinchester|Smurrayinchester]] ([[User talk:Smurrayinchester|talk]]) 21:19, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

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