It was later discovered that "Harry" was female, so she was renamed " Harriet" and lived in captivity in Australia until her death in 2006, aged 175 years. The three Galapagos Island tortoises brought back to England aboard HMS Beagle by Charles Darwin in 1835, as documented in his book, The Voyage of the Beagle.
Tom, Dick and Harry is widely used, so it is beyond the scope of this article to list every passing mention. This corresponds to Tibialis, Digitorum, Artery, Vein, (tibial) Nerve, Hallucis. Ī variation of this is Tom Dick And Very Nervous Harry.
This mnemonic is used to remember the order of the tendons from anterior to posterior at the level of the medial malleolus just posterior to the malleolus. Other examples of this gradation include " tall, dark, and handsome", " hook, line, and sinker", " The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", " lock, stock, and barrel" and so on.Įnglish-speaking medical students use the phrase in memorizing the order of an artery, and a nerve, and the three tendons of the flexor retinaculum in the lower leg: the T, D, A, N and H of Tom, Dick, and Harry correspond to tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum longus, posterior tibial artery, tibial nerve,Īnd flexor hallucis longus. The most common form of tricolon in English is an ascending tricolon, and as such the names are always said in order of ascending syllable length. The phrase is a rhetorical device known as a tricolon. For example, a variation of the phrase can be found in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 (1597): "I am sworn brother to a leash of Drawers, and can call them by their names, as Tom, Dicke, and Francis." Owen told a governing body at Oxford University that "our critical situation and our common interests were discussed out of journals and newspapers by every Tom, Dick and Harry." Pairs of common male names, particularly Jack and Tom, Dick and Tom, or Tom and Tib, were often used generically in Elizabethan times. The earliest known citation is from the 17th-century English theologian John Owen who used the phrase in 1657. The phrase is used in numerous works of fiction. Similar expressions exist in other languages of the world, using commonly used first or last names. The phrase most commonly occurs as "every Tom, Dick, and Harry", meaning everyone, and "any Tom, Dick, or Harry", meaning anyone, although Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable defines the term to specify "a set of nobodies persons of no note". The phrase " Tom, Dick, and Harry" is a placeholder for unspecified people.
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