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History of the term needle in a hay stack

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It's just a very old proverbial phrase. The older version is "a needle in a bottle [i.e. bundle] of hay". Sir Thomas More used a variant of it in 1532: "to go look for a needle in a meadow".

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Colin Rogan
Colin Rogan Answered:

Believed to have originated in the early 1500s, with meadow instead of haystack , this metaphor exists in many languages. Since meadow is a word derived from Old English ods are the phrase originated in England.

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Ashlee Ewell
Ashlee Ewell Answered:

In London around the 1950s people searched for a needle in a haystack to win a sewing machine.

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