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"The sun went bang, with smithereens of birds bursting in all directions."
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Wrote D.H. Lawrence in "Mornings in Mexico" (1927).
Whence this word "smithereens"? It's *smithers*, with an Irish diminutive
ending, but the OED can't fi...
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