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A tailor spyin

Page history last edited by Mr. Hengsterman 6 years, 6 months ago

Leave it to Mulligan to provide some spy-tailor wordplay: “To take the measure of someone” means to size them up or analyze them, but tailors also literally take body measurements in order to sew their clients' clothes.

And—a bit more of a stretch, but—“to take someone’s information” is an idiom common in business practice when asking for a client’s contact details, i.e. “Let me take your information and I’ll get back to you…” So there too we have a (slight) double meaning between business and espionage