A Snowball's Chance

Mon Sep 26 06:34:10 UTC 2005

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:18:25 -0400, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

>Washington Post, Oct 31, 1878, p. 2/1
>He [sc. George Gorham] told his colleagues that the Republican candidates
>in South Carolina "had no more show than a snowball in hell."

Atlanta Daily Constitution, Oct 31, 1877, p. 2/4
A brilliant man or any other kind of a man has about as much show at home
as a snow ball in the hot hereafter. -- Salt Lake Herald.
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--Ben Zimmer