[PW] naked as a jaybird

[Wordmall at aol.com]

I'm frustrated in my attempts to tie this one down. Evan Morris (The Word 
Detective) and Christine Ammer (Cool Cats, Top Dogs, and Other Beastly 
Expressions) are two wordsmiths who at least tried to formulate an answer, but they give 
nothing definitive. I have also learned that it's "naked as a robin" in 
Britain.

So the essence of my question is, why a jaybird?


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