CalvesThe inhabitants of the Isle of Wight are so called from a legendary joke which states that a calf once got its head firmly wedged in a wooden pale, and, instead of breaking up the pale, the farm-man cut off the calf's head. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Calves from Infoplease:
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