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Fill the bill

#1: Jota (jota) on Sep 6, 2021

You sure do Brain!!!

A wonderful bird is the pelican
His bill can hold more than his belican
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

- Ogden Nash, 1943

hmm, this appears to be a lesser-known variant of "fit the bill.

My dictionary of Idioms says that it is an expreesion from the old timey theater days when the manager would pad a program (bill) with singers, dancers, jugglers, comedians etc.

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