"Red hat, no drawers."

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Mar 30 04:34:40 UTC 2005


At 11:13 PM -0500 3/29/05, Rex W. Stocklin wrote:
>At 5:06 PM -0800 3/29/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
>>The former should not be confused with the Texas aphorism, "Big hat,
>>no cattle."
>
>Excuse the butt-in, but I think the phrase is "All hat and no cattle"
>
Well, the google score is 21500-4590 in favor of the "All hat"
version, but those 4590 big-hatters can't be entirely pooh-poohed.

Larry



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