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OK.... Where did the phrase "Don't get your dauber down" originate?

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It comes from an old painters tool called a dauber. When painters would get sad and stopped painting it was said that they "had their dauber down" 

 

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Where did the phrase "Your dauber is down" originate ?..........

 

 

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It comes from an old painters tool called a dauber. When painters would get sad and stopped painting it was said that they "had their dauber down"

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It comes from an old painters tool called a dauber. When painters would get sad and stopped painting it was said that they "had their dauber down"

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