I would also think so!Erik_Kowal wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 11:20 pm The description is only an approximation description of the shape, and not to be taken too literally.

Exactly!
I would also think so!Erik_Kowal wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 11:20 pm The description is only an approximation description of the shape, and not to be taken too literally.
Thank you - and same to you!
So maybe some-one else could help us both?Phil White wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:44 pm I am probably the worlds least qualified person to answer this, as I rarely, if ever, eat pastries, buns or cakes - apart from a very occasional croissant, although the last one would have been about twelve years ago.
Let us not forget:Jonathon Green wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 1996 7:00 am
If slang lexicograopher Eric Partridge is correct, then so too is the suggestion that brass tacks is indeed rhyming slang for 'facts'.