where does the phrase shiver me timbers come from
Shiver my timbers Although the Oxford English Dictionary says the expression "shiver my timbers" probably first appeared in a published work by Frederick Marryat called Jacob Faithful (1835),[1] the phrase actually appeared in print as early as 1795, in a serial publication called "Tomahawk, or Censor General",[2] which gives an "extract of a new MS tragedy called 'Opposition'." In the words of the "old sailor":
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