FW: Antedatings for BBC List

Michael Quinion wordseditor at WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG
Sat Jun 11 08:21:49 UTC 2005


> Did barbers really offer "something for the weekend," or was it just a
> cultural cliché that they did so?

That's a good question. My uncertain memory says that it it was known
to me decades ago (my wife concurs in believing it was around in the
1960s at least), one whose meaning we all knew. But I've never had a
barber actually say this to me.

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