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England: British Medical Journal Publishing Group
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Eric Partridge, in his Dictionary of Historical Slang (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973) defined it as "journalistic padding" and wrote that it was "a strange perversion of the Biblical Balaam and his ass" (referring to Numbers 22:30). J G Lockhart, in his Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1839), wrote that "Balaam is the cant name for asinine...
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_1113435
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_1113435
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0959-8138
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1468-5833,1756-1833
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10.1136/bmj.316.7149.1991a
