[Ads-l] A kind of interdating

[Wilson Gray]

HDAS Page 42 dates the expression

"Your ass is grass and I'm the lawnmower"

from 1955-56.

In the movie, _The Girl He Left Behind_, released October 26, 1956, Murray
Hamilton, as Army Drill Sergeant Buck, says to Tab Hunter, as Army
basic-trainee, Recruit Schaeffer:

"Your ass is grass and I'm the lawnmower!"

Since the only way to verify this, if you haven't seen the movie, is to see
the movie...
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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