Slang phrase nigger inside the woodpile "a concealed motive or unidentified aspect impacting a predicament in an adverse way" [OED 1989] is attested by 1800; Thornton's "American Glossary" (1912) defines it as "A mode of accounting for the disappearance of gasoline," hence "an unsolved secret. The slang phrase "Niga" is https://englandq135ruy3.aboutyoublog.com/profile