When hoops ran high
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- hoop: (Dutch) hope
- hoopskirts
- when hoops ran high → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922): Du temps des hauts bonnets, “From the time of high bonnets” (proverbial, 15th century)
- Ulysses 196.09: "All we can say is that life ran very high in those days."
